Comments on XACML 1.1 draft 1

[Satoshi Hada <SATOSHIH@jp.ibm.com>]

Hi,

I'm sending my comments on the draft
of version 1.1 posted at 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200307/msg00001.html

(1)
Section 5.4 (Lines 1840--1841):
"The <XPathVersion> element
SHALL specify 
the version of the XPath specification
to be 
used by <AttributeSelector> elements."

should be 

"The <XPathVersion> element
SHALL specify 
the version of the XPath specification
to be 
used by <AttributeSelector> elements
and XPath-based functions."

This comment is based on Section 3.9
of the errata document.

(2)
Two different terms are used to refer
to a URI equality comparison.
"URI equality" in Sections
5.27 and 7.9.1, but "anyURI-equality" in Section 5.28.
We should have a common term.

(3) 
According to the XACML schema, the data
type of the "Issuer" attribute 
in AttributeDesignatorType is xs:string.
However, Sections 5.27 and 7.9.1 seem
to say that it is xs:anyURI.
It should be consistent.

This comment should go to the errata
document because 
this is an inconsistency in the 1.0
specification.

Also, see 
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200307/msg00011.html

Satoshi Hada
IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory 
mailto:satoshih@jp.ibm.com