RE: Resolving Various Policy Languages with Ontologies

["Duane Nickull" <dnickull@adobe.com>]

Post from Danny Thornton:

(he mentions the "O" and "S" words)

;-)

-----Original Message-----
From: Danny Thornton [mailto:danny_thornton2@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 10:26 PM
To: Duane Nickull
Subject: Resolving Various Policy Languages with Ontologies

Hi Duane,

The following is an e-mail dicussion I would like to
have with soa-rm group:

I have been reading WD-SOA-RM-09 to get an idea of the
terminology/concepts for resolving various policy
languages in a service oriented architecture. Section
2.2.3.2 of WD-SOA-RM-09 discusses the limits of
description.  Section 2.3.1.2 states that an ontology
can be defined to interpret strings and other tokens
in the data.  

In the discussions I've had about resolving various
policy languages in an SOA, I've hijacked the ontology
concept and applied it as a general concept for
resolving differences in policy languages.  

For example, if I have a service that uses XACML
policy and another service that uses EPAL policy, I
could resolve the differences between the two policy
languages using an ontology for both policy languages
at the policy decision point.

For section 2.3.1.2 of the WD-SOA-RM-09, does anyone
have any thoughts on expanding the concept of
ontologies beyond the service description's data
model?

Danny  



	
		
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