RE: [xacml] xacml 1.1 draft 1

[Polar Humenn <polar@syr.edu>]

I thought I wrote one for the Glossary, didn't I?

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Tim Moses wrote:

> Colleagues - One other thing.  Merely in the interests of stylistic
> consistency, why don't we have a succinct definition of "type unification"
> in the Glossary, and explain how to do it in that part of the specification
> where the concept is used?  All the best.  Tim.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Moses [mailto:tim.moses@entrust.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:40 AM
> To: 'Simon Godik'; xacml@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [xacml] xacml 1.1 draft 1
> 
> 
> Colleagues - A handful of editorial comments.
>  
> Lines 4 and 31.  This is a committee spec., not an OASIS spec..
> Line 5.  Perhaps, we should just assign a document id.  Let's not wait for
> an OASIS numbering system.
> Lines 11 - 24.  Needs updating.  Also suggest removing email addresses.
> Also Appendix D.
> Line 995.  Wrong font.
> Line 1950.  " ... be combined by the algorithm specified by ..." becomes "
> ... be combined using the algorithm specified by ..."  (Just removes
> repetition of "by").
> Line 2612.  "The selected node is different from the node types listed
> above".  But the list above contains constructor functions (according to
> line 2583).
> Lines 2635 - 2645.  Non-normative language.  In four place "is" should be
> "SHALL be".
> Lines 3107 - 3117 and lines 3130 - 3144.  The phrases in the text don't
> match the phrases in the table.  e.g. "At least one applicable" in the text,
> whereas "At least one rule value is its Effect" in the table.
> Lines 3172 - 3193.  I am personally still not happy with this explanation.
> I don't have a specific proposal.  But, one signal that something is wrong
> comes from the fact that in line 3175 we say that "A named attribute is the
> term for the criteria ...".  But, in line 3180 we say that "A named
> attribute has specific criteria ...".  Is "attribute instance" more
> descriptive than "named attribute"?
>  
> I should point out that most of these comments apply to the original
> editor's work.  All the best.  Tim.
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Godik [mailto:simon.godik@overxeer.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 5:05 PM
> To: xacml@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [xacml] xacml 1.1 draft 1
> 
> 
> Here is xacml 1.1 draft 1
>  
> Please let me know if I left something out.
> Simon
> 
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