ruleId

RULEID is a unique identifier assigned to an individual rule within a rule-based system, policy engine, or rule management platform. The identifier serves as a stable reference to the rule, enabling precise retrieval, auditing, and cross-reference even as the rule's description or logic evolves.

In most implementations, a RULEID is immutable: the identifier remains the same while the rule's content changes through revisions or versions. Formats vary by system and may be simple integers, universally unique identifiers (UUIDs), or structured strings that incorporate a namespace, rule type, and version. This flexibility allows RULEIDs to scale in large deployments and to prevent collisions across domains.

RULEIDs are used in logging when a rule fires, in change-management to track updates, and in rule engines to anchor constraints, actions, and dependencies. They enable complex operations such as dependency resolution, rollback, and impact analysis by ensuring every rule can be unambiguously identified.

Design and governance considerations include registering RULEIDs in a central registry, documenting each rule's name, description, owner, and status, and enforcing a deprecation path that preserves historical IDs. Systems often provide metadata fields for created-at, last-modified, version, and relationships to other rules.

RULEIDs appear in various domains, including access-control policies, business-rule management, network firewall configurations, fraud-detection engines, and event-processing pipelines, where they help coordinate rules among teams and across environments such as development, staging, and production.