RE: 5.1.6 Rule language coverage <--: UCR Requirements Text

> > How about:
> >
> > RIF* must allow** rule interchange*** between common deployed****
rule
> > engines. =20
> >
> > * =3D RIF, the format, any extensions, and appropriate translators
> 
> Standard extensions or third-party non-standard extensions?

[PV>] Can a 3rd-party non-standard extension be part of / be regulated
by a standard such as RIF? I'd assume extensions must be constrained to
"standard extensions" (for what its worth).

* = RIF, the format, any standard extensions, and appropriate
translators

> 
> > ** =3D subject to the development of appropriate compliant
translators
> > *** =3D interchange of rulesets against either a prespecified fact
or =
> > data
> > model, or including said fact or data model
> > **** =3D rule engines limited to individual research topics or
> > institutions are assumed not to be both common and deployed; however
RIF
> > does not exclude these being covered.
> 
> If standard extensions, then when do you think we can achieve this?
> Certainly not in the next couple years, right?  We'd have to subsume
the
> prolog standardization work, etc.  And every time some rule vendor
added
> a feature, we would have failed in this goal until we caught up.

[PV>] I'd say that these issues are inherent in RIF as a concept. The
lack of metrics / difficulty in assessing whether this requirement is
handled does not though detract from the general requirement for
coverage. IMHO.

> 
>      -- Sandro
> 
> > Paul Vincent
> > TIBCO | Business Optimization | Business Rules & CEP
> > =20
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: public-rif-wg-request@w3.org
> > [mailto:public-rif-wg-request@w3.org]
> > > On Behalf Of Sandro Hawke
> > > Sent: 03 June 2008 15:53
> > > To: Christian de Sainte Marie
> > > Cc: RIF WG
> > > Subject: UCR Requirements Text
> > >=20
> > ...
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > > 5.1.6 Rule language coverage
> > > >
> > > > RIF must cover the set of languages identified in the
_Rulesystem
> > > > Arrangement Framework_. See the _Coverage_ section.
> > >=20
> > > Both those links are broken.  How about this:
> > >=20
> > >       RIF (with extensions) must cover all widely-deployed rule
> > >       languages.
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > ...

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