Re: [xacml-dev] Conformance Tests for V2

[Anne Anderson <Anne.Anderson@sun.com>]

Argyn,

Sun developed the V1.0 conformance tests and contributed them to the 
XACML TC.  IBM then took over ownership and added a few more tests. 
They said they could no longer maintain the tests after V1.1, however, 
and since then there has been no owner.

Conformance tests are not required by OASIS rules.  Conformance tests 
are extremely valuable, however, and it would be wonderful to have 
someone able to maintain them.  We just don't have enough resources in 
the TC right now.

I could see two routes.
1) They could be maintained through the OASIS XACML TC.  In this case, 
the maintainer would have to be a member of the TC in order to 
contribute the tests with clear intellectual property status.
2) They could probably be maintained through the Sun XACML Open Source. 
  Seth Proctor would have to decide this.  Again, however, the 
maintainer would have to be signed up as a Sun XACML open source 
contributor so that the tests would come with a clear IP status.

Anne

Kuketayev, Argyn (Contractor) wrote:

> Seth
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Seth Proctor [mailto:Seth.Proctor@sun.com] 
>>Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 8:39 PM
>>To: Kuketayev, Argyn (Contractor)
>>Cc: xacml-dev@lists.oasis-open.org
>>Subject: Re: [xacml-dev] Conformance Tests for V2
>>
>>
>>
>>On May 23, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Kuketayev, Argyn (Contractor) wrote:
>>
>>>I looked at Diego's work on converting Conformance tests to V 2.0
>>>
>>>Is there any way to "officialize" these tests? I mean adding them to
>>>the
>>>main XACML page, so the developers would use for testing tools.
>>
>>Good question. I suspect that this would require at least an official 
>>submission to OASIS and then a TC vote to accept them as a committee 
>>"document" ... all of which could be done, but would probably move 
>>easier if someone participating in the standard took ownership.
> 
> 
> There's must be an owner of Conformance tests v.1. If this owner can't
> maintain the test suite, then someone else should take ownership of
> this. You know how important it is to have a conformance test set. If
> there's any help needed with technical stuff, I can offer myself. Maybe
> Diego would contribute his work.
> 
> Thanks,
> argyn
> 
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