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Hal LockhartDec 21, 2005 7:32 am 
Bill ParducciDec 21, 2005 7:49 am 
Polar HumennDec 21, 2005 8:02 am 
Bill ParducciDec 21, 2005 8:48 am 
Subject:Re: [xacml] RE: [xacml-comment] Public Comment
From:Polar Humenn (pol@syr.edu)
Date:Dec 21, 2005 8:02:07 am
List:org.oasis-open.lists.xacml

I still do not get the concept of a Root Policy set.

Of what purpose would this serve in the standard?

It might serve as a product instruction manual which is a single monolithic PDP saying that there is one policy which is the root of that PDP, which is either a PolicySet or Policy.

If you are pulling out relavant policies out of an LDAP server (only for example), then where is this "root"?

-Polar

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Bill Parducci wrote:

i think this plays well with the concept of a PDP root policy(set).

Hal Lockhart wrote:

I think the idea of more defaults is a good one and I am forwarding this to the TC list.

However, based on past discussions, I believe the TC would be more likely to select "deny-overrides" as the default.

Hal

-----Original Message----- From: comm@oasis-open.org [mailto:comm@oasis-open.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:48 AM To: xacm@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: [xacml-comment] Public Comment

Comment from: lud@sics.se

Name: Ludwig Seitz Title: PhD Researcher Organization: Security, Policy and Trust Laboratory, SICS, Sweden Regarding Specification: XACML

Hello all, I wanted to suggest some points for the XACML standard with the goal

of

simplifying XACML Policies (by reducing their verboseness).

1. Define a default policy/rule combining algorithm, e.g. "permit- overrides", if the attribute PolicyCombiningAlgId/RuleCombiningAlgId

is

missing from a PolicySet/Policy tag.

2. Define "string-equal" as default MatchId attribute in SubjectMatch, ResourceMatch and ActionMatch tags.

3. Define "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string" as default

DataType

attribute in AttributeValue tags.

4. Define "urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject:subject-id"/ "urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id"/ "urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id" as default values for the AttributeId attribute of SubjectAttributeDesignator/ ResourceAttributeDesignator/ ActionAttributeDesignator

Regards,

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