RIF Working Group
From RIF
The mission of the Rule Interchange Format (RIF) Working Group is to produce W3C Recommendations for rules interchange
Events
- Last Call: BLD and SWC
- F2F11 Sept 26-27, 2008, NY
- Will you attend? Complete the questionnaire!
- Telecon 16 Sept 2008
- PROPOSED: Core will not have equality in the head
- PROPOSED: formally approve some test cases (TBD)
- Telecon 9 Sep 2008 Agenda
- RESOLVED: Core will not have named-argument uniterms
- Telecon 2 Sep 2008 Agenda Minutes (draft)
- Telecon 26 Aug 2008 Agenda Minutes
- Telecon 18 Aug 2008 Agenda Minutes
- Telecon 12 Aug 2008 Agenda Minutes
- Telecon 5 Aug 2008 Agenda Minutes
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 | 31-Oct (LC) | ?? | 31-Oct (PR) | 31-Oct (LC) | 31-Oct (PR) | 31-Oct (LC) | 31-Oct (LC) | ?? | ?? |
| Latest Internal Snapshot | 30-Jul | none | 30-Jul | 30-Jul | 30-Jul | 30-Jul | 30-Jul | ||
| 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
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] | 02-Sep-08 | TK | TK1 |
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
