Re: [xacml-users] Why medical samples?

[Seth Proctor <Seth.Proctor@Sun.COM>]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 13:46, Kuketayev, Argyn wrote:
> This question is stupid indeed, but I'm going to ask it anyways :)
>
> Why's everyone using medical samples? Is it where XACML originated?

Heh. Not a stupid question at all. I'm sure lots of other people wonder
at that too.

In my opinion, the medical world today provides a lot of very good, very
tangible security use-cases and examples. Therefore, the examples in the
specification are all about medical records (just to stay consistent, I
think). A lot of the XPath questions that people raise are based on the
examples in the spec, so the medical theme is carried over.

Dunno. Maybe there is a deeper reason. Can anyone from the early XACML
days shed some light on this?


seth