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Subject: Re: [xacml] Groups - xacml-3.0-obligation-v1-wd-03.zip uploaded



On Feb 25, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Erik Rissanen wrote:

> I think we should support both. I haven't really thought through yet  
> how these two can interact and be perhaps combined. My gut feeling  
> is that the atomicity guarantees should be supersets of the  
> causality guarantees, that is, if you ask for the atomicity  
> guarantee, you get the causality as well.


This is what spawned my initial proposal a while ago for a hierarchy  
between ObligationsFamilies.

<history>
This begat the discussion of where to capture such information, which  
begat the conversation about a "root" policy, which begat my  
realization that the Decision Context is in reality the "root" for any  
given decision, which finally begat my suggestion that this be  
captured in the Context Policy.
</history>

The idea behind this approach is that the unbound nature of  
Obligations makes it difficult to define generalities like "atomicity  
supersedes causality". By creating a hierarchy within the XACML Policy  
specification I believe we have the ability to unambiguously define  
precedence (at least in the decisions) without complex combining rules  
or external "black box URIs".

Again, this was just the starting point for the initial idea so there  
is a lot of room for improvement now that we have tangible schemas to  
start measuring it against :)

b


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