- From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@inf.unibz.it>
- Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 10:45:37 -0400 (EDT)
- To: der@hplb.hpl.hp.com
- Cc: paula.patranjan@ifi.lmu.de, public-rif-wg@w3.org
From: Dave Reynolds <der@hplb.hpl.hp.com> Subject: Re: [UCR] Proposal for RIF' design constraints hierarchy Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 14:45:29 +0100 > > Paula-Lavinia Patranjan wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Based on the design constraints, which have been proposed by some of the > > RIF participants, and the previous work on requirements, a new, refined > > version for the hierarchy of design constraints is proposed: > > > > http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Towards_a_Rule_Interchange_Format%3A_Goals%2C_Critical_Success_Factors%2C_Requirements > > > > > > This draft is work in progress and its aim is to raise discussions that > > will entail decisions on RIF's goals, critical success factors and > > requirements; I will refine this draft based on your feedback. Short > > comments and comparison to Dave's proposal (cf. > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rif-wg/2006Apr/0005) for a > > hierarchy of same kind are also stated. > > Thanks very much for this, I have three non-trivial comments and a few > minor questions/quibbles. > > First, this seems to focus on maximizing expressivity. There are a lot of > requirements in here covering everything from probabilistic reasoning, to > courteous logic to FOL. I don't see anything aimed at narrowing the scope > to improve cohesion. For effective interchange there has to be some > encouragement to moderate the expressivity of individual dialect to > increase the chances of there being reasonably complete implementations of > a given dialect. A very big +1 on this. > Second, I don't see much in here which connects RIF to the web other than > the requirement to ingest XML/RDF/OWL. There is no requirement for > webization (URIs and all that), no requirement for external access to web > data sources (e.g. SPARQL), no overall goal expressed towards make RIF > relevant towards rule use on the semantic web. Also a very big +1. [...] And a general +1 for the minor comments. Peter F. Patel-Schneider
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