A new requirement: exchange of rules

• Applications may want to exchange their rules:

• • negotiate eBusiness contracts across platforms: supply vendor-neutral representation of your business rules so that others may find you
  • describe privacy requirements and policies, and let clients “merge” those (e.g., when paying with a credit card)

• Hence the name of the working group: Rule Interchange Format

• • a language that
  • • expresses the rules a bit like a rule language with, eg, RDF
    • can be used to exchange rules among engines