Minutes 18 December 2008 TC Meeting

[Bill Parducci <bill@parducci.net>]

1. Roll Call
   Hal Lockhart (Chair)
   Bill Parducci (Co-chair, minutes)
   Erik Rissanen
   Anthony Nadalin
   Rich Levinson
   Duane DeCouteau
   David Staggs
   Anil Saldhana

  Non-voting
   John Tolbert
   Sean Curran

  Quorum met (88% per Kavi)

2. Administrivia
   Minutes from 4 December 2008 Meeting
   Approved unanimously.

   Hal proposed that the TC meet every week after the first of the
   year or extend the existing meetings to 2 hours. There is general
   agreement that the TC move to weekly meetings through the delivery
   of v3. The next meeting will be 8 January 2009.

   Bill discussed the Oasis Jira/Subversion implementation. TC members
   should have received notification of an account being created. Bill
   offered to have the issues list moved over on 1/1.

   Duane reviewed the XSPA Profile submission. The document was edited
   for some formatting and administrative requirements and submitted.

3. Issues
   Issue #66: Policy Combining
   Rich reviewed the state of the Issue. Erik suggested that we limit
   the normative combining algorithms. Tony voiced concern that
   introducing a fixed number will limit the implementation flexibility.

   Erik proposed to add the 4 new "extended" combining algorithms be
   added to the specification and that the existing algorithms be
   marked for future deprecation. There is general agreement to adding
   the combining algorithms. The TC needs more time to discuss making
   the new algorithms mandatory and if so, whether to mark the existing
   combining algorithms as marked for future deprecation.

   Obligations in Rules
   There was a discussion on Obligations. There is general agreement to
   allow Obligations at the Rule level and introduce a type of
   Obligation (Advice?) that may be ignored. Bill raised the concern
   that Obligations do not currently have a combining mechanism and
   that it is likely that conflicts will arise at the PEP.

   There is general agreement that Obligations be mandatory. Hal
   suggested that the TC needs to review what is mandatory/optional in
   the specification at a later date.

   Missing Attributes
   Erik reviewed the discussion on the list. Hal will post clarified
   text.

meeting adjourned.