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Subject: RE: Another Group - Role Distinction?


I will take this opportunity to post the NIST RBAC paper, as
www.list.gmu.edu seems to still be down. 

I believe what Simon is describing is what they call Restricted and
Unrestricted Hierarchies.

Hal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon Y. Blackwell [mailto:sblackwell@psoom.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 6:59 PM
> To: 'xacml@lists.oasis-open.org'
> Subject: Another Group - Role Distinction?
> 
> 
> Is it the case that groups propagate "up" whereas roles 
> propagate "down" for
> security purposes?
> 
> For example:
> 
> humans is a subgroup primates
> X is a member of humans
> ----------------
> X is a member of primates = True
> 
> humans is a subgroup primates
> X is a member of primates
> -----------------
> X is a member of humans = Unknown
> 
> junior auditor is a child-role of senior auditor
> X can play role junior auditor
> -----------------
> X can play role senior auditor = Unknown
> 
> junior auditor is a child-role of senior auditor
> X can play role senior auditor
> -----------------
> X can play role junior auditor = True
> 
> 
> 
> Simon Y. Blackwell 
> CTO 
> Psoom, Inc. 
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rbac-nist.pdf



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