This holds the matching criteria (any device, equipment ID, vendor, or equipment ID plus software version) for one specific rule row in a table that can hold several simultaneous policy rules, as opposed to the single global mode set elsewhere. This lets an admin run different match strictness for different rules at once, for example one looser rule for a trusted vendor and a stricter one for a less-trusted batch. For example, rule 1 might use vendor(2) matching for an established supplier while rule 2 uses the stricter equidAndSwver(3) for a newer, less-trusted equipment source.