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Subject: RE: [xacml] another small time/date issue
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003, Seth Proctor wrote: > > We say that "current-time" and friends should be provided and expected > > to be defined, why is not it sufficient? We can not adjust all > > implementation clocks anyway. > > If you refer to current-time twice in a policy where the value is being > supplied by the PDP, one implementation might return two slightly > different values while another might return the same value twice. This > is not likely to be a huge problem, but it does represent different > behavior across different applications, and it can be addressed without > too much difficulty. Well, it goes a little deeper than that. You'd have to state that once you retrieve "current-*", that time is fixed, because you could conceivably retrieve the current-date at 23:59:59, and the current-time later at 00:00:00 (the next day). I really tried to argue that the request context should contain the "access-time", and leave this concept of "current" time out of the policy. > I'm not sure what adjusting clocks has to do with this... Too many XACML implementation issues. I think what Daniel might be trying to get at, is that different policies might be evaluated in a distributed fashion on different machines with different clocks, and their concept of "current" would have a synchronization, as well, as an accuracy problem. This situation also makes the obvious solution problematic, as the "fetch" of the time at some specific point would have to be coordinated to become constant.
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