RE: Is this of interest to us ?

["Simon Y. Blackwell" <sblackwell@psoom.com>]

This is defintely relevant. If you know the aaaarch folks I would try and
get them involved in our effort at least at a liason level. We will have a
much better chance of succeeding with the promulgation of a standard if we
can get W3C and IETF/IRTF people involved.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Krishna Sankar [mailto:ksankar@cisco.com]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 7:46 AM
> To: xacml@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Is this of interest to us ?
> 
> 
> FYI.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-aaaarch@fokus.gmd.de [mailto:owner-aaaarch@fokus.gmd.de]On
> Behalf Of Guus Sliepen
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 1:20 AM
> To: AAAARCH mailing list
> Cc: auth@lists.aaaarch.org
> Subject: Work on the Generic Policies draft
> 
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Since last IETF, Armijn Hemel, Arie Taal and I have worked on 
> a Grammar for
> Policies in a Generic AAA Environment. Our motive was to see 
> what exactly
> the
> requirements are for a policy language, what problems you 
> encounter, and so
> on.
> We have also started implementing our grammar, so we can do 
> simulations and
> in
> the end can make a proof-of-concept setup. It is however not 
> ment to become
> a
> standard.
> 
> There are already lots of policy langauges for lots of 
> applications, however
> we
> want to make one for Generic AAA. The Policy Framework WG for 
> example has
> also
> specified a way to represent policies. In order to prevent 
> side-effects
> however
> they have limited the types of conditions and recursion. We 
> have decided to
> allow any level of recursion (this is a requirement I think 
> for distributed
> policies) and any kind of logical condition.
> 
> Changes since draft-taal-aaaarch-generic-pol-01.txt:
> 
> - Changed name to draft-irtf-aaaarch-generic-pol-00.txt
> - The grammar is much more mature now
> - Specified what actions are
> - Allow policies to be both Literal and Action for more 
> flexible and better
>   readable policies
> 
> We have made some very big changes past week, which means 
> that the draft
> currently is not in a very consistent state. We will continue 
> to work on it
> however and hope to finish it this month. You can find the draft at:
> 
> http://iridal.phys.uu.nl/aaaarch/rfc/draft-irtf-aaaarch-generi
c-pol-00.txt

Comments and discussion are welcome.

--
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
  Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.warande.net>