- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:43:29 -0500
- To: Francis McCabe <frankmccabe@sandsoft.com>
- Cc: W3C RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
> > How do you suggest that I -- a user -- know what rules I can write and
> > remain confident they will work on several other vendors' systems?
> Sandro:
> First of all, the poor user is the last person who will know :
> ( However, the rule vendor should be able to communicate properly to
> the user.
> Secondly, the simple answer to the question is you cannot guarantee
> that your rules will work on anybody else's engine. That is a
> different project: not a rules interchange format but a standard
> rules language. The trouble with the latter project is not that there
> have not been any, but that there are too many! And that too many
> people believe they know what such a SRL should be like (including
> yours truly)
> Under the remit of the RIF, the best that you can hope for is that
> you get a clear and unambiguous signal that your rule set has been
> faithfully transmitted to a particular rule language. That is already
> an advance on the state of the art, by the way.
> Frank
Why can't we transmit non-recursive Horn rules in a way that supports
cross-rule-platform portability? I don't see the problem.
(on that note, I need to end this wonderful conversation until
tomorrow!)
-- Sandro
Received on Sunday, 17 December 2006 23:44:35 UTC