Re: [xacml] Minutes from Glossary Telecon September 28

[bill parducci <bill@parducci.net>]

> Target:  more general than "resource"; all the information used to find
> which policy (or policies) apply to this request (e.g., resource and action
> at least, but perhaps other information as well).  The collection of inputs
> to a PRP.  [There was some discussion as to whether or not this was an
> intuitive term to use, but some term (without a lot of other semantic
> baggage) would be helpful in order to capture this notion.]

if used as a noun (above), i would think that the term TARGET would be
used to specifcally define that entity (or entities) that the requester
was attempting to gain access to. if a verb, then i think a more
appropriate term for "[the process of finding] all the information used
to find which policy (or policies) apply to this request" would be
DISCOVERY -- it would be less confusing. is there baggage with
'discovery' that anyone can think of?

b