[RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited)

Dear RIF-WGers,

As the messages from Peter and Francois show, the section of the draft
UC&R document entitled "What is a Rule Interchange Format And Why
Create One?" has some controversial statements concerning what the RIF
is.    

Peter has suggested removing the section in question for now.  That
could easily be done.  However, if it is important for us to be clear
about what the RIF and is not in our first publicly released version of
the UC&R then I think we need to address this question and come up with
a sensible answer, even if it is a tentative one.
  

Here are some questions to think about:

1) If the RIF is mainly (or just) a rule-language, how does it enable
interchange, anymore than some other rule-language?

2) Does the RIF need to be or include one or more rule-languages in
order to be a RIF?

3) If the RIF has the ability to specify or describe rules and
derivation procedures belonging to one or more  rule-languages, does
that mean that the RIF must itself "be" one or more fully-fledged
rule-languages?


Allen

Received on Tuesday, 7 February 2006 16:00:29 UTC