100% Free/libre/open

Data With Direction.

Expressions of obligation, permission or encouragement constitute a distinct class of data of the type:

IS + RULE ⟾ OUGHT

Instantaneously discover and transmit rules-as-data in a way that is directly usable by anyone and by any platform, for any purpose, in any language.

Reference Implementations

Rule Taker

The rules you want to know about, now.

Rule Reserve

Where rules go to be found.

Rule Maker

Write the rules you want to see.

Symbols Key

Concepts And Operations

RuleMaker
RuleReserve
RuleTaker

Obligation, Permission and Encouragement


expressed with terms


MUST, MAY and SHOULD


and their various negatives and synonyms


Rules-As-data


By Anyone,
For Any purpose,
On Any platform,
In Any language.

Fast functional knowledge of rules that are deemed to be:


  • ‘in effect’ for dates/times and jurisdictions;
  • ‘applicable’ to your industry, product or service context;
  • ‘invoked’ by a particular circumstance of the moment.

What is a rule?


Assertion of a practical, logical, ethical or aesthetic relation between what ‘is’ and what ‘ought’ to be, established among two or more individuals or entities.


IS + RULE ⟾ OUGHT

"Data With Direction Specification" (DWDS)


The RuleMaker application
  • Simplify, transcribe, and publish rules.
  • The RuleReserve network service
  • Store, sift, and transmit rules-as-data.
  • The RuleTaker component
  • Discover, fetch, scrutinize, and use rules.
  • A Practicable Business Solution:


    A DWDS describes how to create 'an Internet of Rules': a decentralized distributed network service for anyone to author, publish, discover, fetch, scrutinize, prioritize and, with agreement of direct stakeholders, automate rules that are ‘in effect’, ‘applicable’ and ‘invoked’ by a circumstance, across any informatics network, with precision, simplicity, scale, speed, resilience, and deference.

    The Network
    Effect


    The value of 'an Internet of Rules' to any individual user increases as there is greater adoption across the entire user base.

    • Greater performance by each is more attainable the more RuleReserve gets populated by all;
    • Distribution of effort enables economies of scale (lower per-user cost; spread cost of innovation);
    • Joint benefits of a generic network usable by any platform (write once, run anywhere);
    • Joint benefits of a generic network usable by any platform (write once, run anywhere);

    We are a decentralized community of contributors that are collaborating across disciplines and attitudes to design general purpose systems that work.

    Multi-

    National

    Scale

    Lingual

    Temporal

    100%

    Free / Libre / Open

    The Data With Direction Specification (DWDS) in a Nutshell

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    We've Been Listening,
    Thinking, Building and Refining.

    And now, with a complete end-to-end design, we're excited to share DWDS (Data With Direction Specification), our work-in-progress reference implementations, and use cases in development under Xalgorithms-hosted working groups.

    How We Think
    Core Documents →
    How We Communicate
    Communication Docs →
    Everyone's Input
    Email Archive →
    Earth Reserve Assurance (ERA)

    A framework improving stability of worth while incentivize long term assurance of commodities with distributed verifiability.

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    Xalgo4Trade

    Xalgorithms’ Internet of Rules is a general-purpose, transformative method for 'rules-as-data' to simplify, clarify and automate regulatory conformance and efficiency in cross-border trade.

    Learn More →