RIF Working Group
From RIF
The mission of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group is to produce W3C Recommendations for rules interchange
Events
- F2F12, 14-15 January 2009, Portland, OR
- Telecon 2 December 2008 Agenda
- PROPOSED: Publish UCR as WD4
- PROPOSED: Publish Core as WD2
- PROPOSED: Publish PRD as WD2
- PROPOSED: Publish Test as FPWD
- PROPOSED: Publish DTB as WD2
- PROPOSED: closing some or all of ISSUES-67, ISSUE-79, ISSUE-80, ISSUE-81 (TBD during telecon)
- PROPOSED: accepting some test cases (TBD during telecon)
- Topics: F2F12, Publications, ISSUES-67, ISSUE-79, ISSUE-80, ISSUE-81, Test Cases
- Telecon 25 Nov 2008 Agenda Minutes (draft)
- Telecon 18 Nov 2008 Agenda Minutes
- Telecon 11 Nov 2008 Agenda Minutes
- RESOLVED: Publish rdf:text as a FPWD, jointly with OWL-WG, adding an editor's note about infinity (actions Jos, Axel)
- RESOLVED: In RIF-PRD, the conflict resolution strategy for a set of rules will be indicated in some way, associated with the top-level group. RIF-PRD 1.0 will specify only one normative conflict resolution strategy, as specified in csma's email [9] (essentially: refraction+priority+recency).
- RESOLVED: RIF-PRD 1.0 MAY specify other conflict resolution strategies for suggested use, but these will not be mandatory.
- RESOLVED: Close ISSUE-64.
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 | Test | rdf:Text | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki Page | UCR | Core | BLD | FLD | SWC | DTB | PRD | Test | Text |
| Latest Public Snapshot (TR) | 30-Jul | 2007 | 30-Jul | 30-Jul | 30-Jul | 30-Jul | 30-Jul | none | |
| Next TR Expected | 2-Dec (WD) | 2-Dec (WD) | Mar-09 (CR) | Mar-09 (LC) | Mar-09 (CR) | 2-Dec (WD) | 2-Dec (WD) | 2-Dec (FPWD) | 2-Dec (FPWD) |
| Latest Internal Snapshot | 21-Nov | 21-Nov | 22-Sep | 23-Sep | 22-Sep | 21-Nov | 21-Nov | 21-Nov | 21-Nov |
| Issues/Actions | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | tracker | ||
| Latest Internal Reviews |
Other Documents
- Test Cases Document
- Test cases listing
- Arch (working version of the RIF Architecture draft)
- Implementation Plans
- Glossary
- Publicity Efforts
- OWL2/RL
- PRD Discussions
- Actions in PRD
- PRD RAF
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] |
| [17] | 04-Aug-08 | PFPS | PFPS4 | [18] |
| [19] | 27-Aug-08 | OK | OK1 | |
| [20] | 02-Sep-08 | TK | TK1 | [21] |
| [22] | 10-Sep-08 | JM | JM1 | [23] |
| [24] | 14-Sep-08 | RG | RG1 | [25] |
| [26] | 14-Sep-08 | AR | AR1 | [27] |
| [28] | 16-Sep-08 | YJH | YJH1 | [29] |
| [30] | 19-Sep-08 | NB | NB1 | [31] |
| [32] | 21-Sep-08 | EP | EP1 | [33] |
| [34] | 21-Sep-08 | WL | WL1 | [35] |
| [36] | 22-Sep-08 | JanM | JanM1 | [37] |
| [38] | 24-Sep-08 | AR | AR2 | [39] |
| [40] | 9-Oct-08 | RAK | RAK |
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
