RIF Working Group
From RIF
The mission of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group is to produce W3C Recommendations for rules interchange
Events
- Telecon 1 July 2008 Agenda Minutes (draft)
- RESOLVED: Mark "External Frames" AT RISK in BLD.
- RESOLVED: Change the tag name of the sub elements of Equal in BLD XML from side to left and right
- Telecon 24 June 2008 Agenda Minutes
- RESOLVED: BLD refers to DTB by version number. If/when dialects need other things, they refer to new versions. BLD still refers to old one.
- Telecon 17 June 2008 Agenda Minutes
- Telecon 10 June 2008 Agenda Minutes
- RESOLVED: reword req. 5.2.8 to "RIF semantics"
- RESOLVED: replace req. 5.2.9 with re-wording: "The semantics of a RIF document must be uniquely determined by the content of the document, without out-of-band data."
- RESOLVED: change req. 5.2.12 to "must" support ability to merge rule sets
- RESOLVED: change req. 5.2.13 "will" to "must" & remove parenthetical comment: RIF must support the identification of rule sets.
- RESOLVED: Move 5.3.1 to 5.2.14 and make it a SHOULD instead of MUST. (support XML as data)
WG Contacts
- Email chairs+staff at team-rif-chairs@w3.org
- Chris Welty (email) , IBM Research, Chair
- Christian de Sainte Marie (email), ILOG, Chair
- Sandro Hawke (email), W3C, Staff contact
Info
- RIF Charter
- All Working Group participants are automatically subscribed to the group's main discussion list public-rif-wg@w3.org (public ). Non-participants may not subscribe to or post to the list, but they may read the archives on the web archive (including using the RSS feed of the archives).
- The group will also use the Member-confidential administrative list, member-rif-wg@w3.org (member-visible archive).
- Comments from the public to the Working Group are welcome at public-rif-comments@w3.org (public archive).
- The RIF Working group is part of the W3C Semantic Web activity
Deliverables
| UCR | Core | BLD | FLD | RDF+OWL | DTB | PRD | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki Page | UCR | Core | BLD | FLD | SWC | DTB | PRD |
| Latest Public Snapshot (TR) | 2006 | 30-Oct | 15-Apr | 15-Apr | 15-Apr | none | none |
| Next TR Expected | 15-Jul (3PWD) | ?? | 15-Jul (LC) | 15-Jul (2PWD) | 15-Jul (LC) | 15-Jul (FPWD) | 15-Jul (FPWD) |
| Latest Internal Snapshot | 2-Jul | none | 9-Jun | 9-Jun | 9-Jun | 2-Jul | 3-Jul |
| Issues/Actions | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker |
| Latest Internal Reviews | 1 2 3 | 1 2 3 4 | 1 |
Other Documents
- Arch (working version of the RIF Architecture draft)
- Implementation Plans
- Glossary
Responses to public comments
| Comment | Date | Author | Wiki Page | Response |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | 19-Oct-07 | PFPS | PFPS1 | [2] |
| [3] | 2-Nov-07 | PFPS | PFPS2 | [4] |
| [5] | 6-May-08 | JC | JC1 | [6] |
| [7] | 13-May-08 | JC | JC2 | [8] |
| [9] | 15-May-08 | JC | JC3 | [10] |
| [11] | 5-May-08 | DC | DC1 | [12] |
| [13] | 5-May-08 | DC | DC2 | [14] |
| [15] | 29-Jan-08 | PFPS | PFPS3 | [16] |
Older Task Areas
- Design Principles and Design Constraints
- Rulesystem Arrangement Framework (aka RIF-RAF)
- OWL Compatibility and RDF Compatibility
- Extensible_Design
Related work
- OMG PRR (beta 1 specification) (dated 4 November 2007)
- Comments are welcome, and should be directed to issues@omg.org by December 15, 2007.
Group Membership and Joining
The group holds telecons weekly and has 2-4 face-to-face meetings each year. See Meetings.
- List of participants (Member-only)
- list of participants (public)
- Join or quit the group
If you want to be involved without joining the Working Group, you are encouraged to review and comment on the Working Drafts as they become available. Feedback from people actually implementing the specifications is especially valuable.
Charter, Meeting Records, and History
The RIF Working Group Charter shows what the W3C has asked this working group to do. Meeting minutes and agendas are recorded here.
- Information about Meetings
- RIF WG Actions and issues tracker
- Record of WG Resolutions
- RIF common terms and glossary (these should be merged).
W3C Working Group Resources
- W3C Guidebook — the Art of Consensus Guide W3C member confidential
- W3C Editor's Home Page
- W3C Process Document (the W3C governing document)
- W3C Groups, Participants (dbwg) W3C member confidential
Staff
- Email chairs+staff at team-rif-chairs@w3.org
- Chris Welty (email) , IBM Research, Chair
- Christian de Sainte Marie (email), ILOG, Chair
- Sandro Hawke (email), W3C, Staff contact
