• Ability to ensure rule relationships and dependencies are maintained.

• Ability to sort (filter) and view rules by meta-data (eg categorisation)

• Ability to enforce security (authorization) on rule management by

workgroup business process, data resource, or both.

(pending clarification of scope)

• Ability to author and publish rules.

(DSL based, Decision table, SVN integration, IDE)

• Ability to explore and maintain rules.

Categorisation

• Ability to query rules.

• Ability to generate reports.

• Ability to simulate rules and invoke/interrogate external rule

sources.

(pending clarification of scope)

• Ability to deploy/un-deploy rules as a package logically or business

model based (i.e. contract limits/timing).

• Ability to trace rules across dependencies using versioning and

history for audit purposes.