RE: [soa-rm-ra] Draft for release

["Poulin, Michael" <Michael.Poulin@uk.fid-intl.com>]

Before the meeting today, I would like to mention that Figure  4-17  in 4.4.1 Policy and Contract Relationships is a little ambiguous. In particular the relationship between the Contract and Policy called "may reference" has to have a direction.

 

I believe that the direction should go from the Contract to the Policy only. In opposite case, when a Policy "references" a Contract, one can get into troubles because a Contract - an agreement between two - may be exposed to the 3rd Party as a mandatory Policy, which may be seen as a security beach. So, a Contract can refer to a Policy and other Contracts ( which also not shown in the diagram), while the Policy can refer other Policies only.

 

Cheers,

- Michael

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From: Francis McCabe [mailto:frankmccabe@mac.com]
Sent: 23 May 2007 16:45
To: soa-rm-ra@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: [soa-rm-ra] Draft for release