Re: [xacml] Style modifications to combining algorithms

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

On 3 September, Tim Moses writes: [xacml] Style modifications to combining algorithms
 > 1. The name of the function is "Policy", rather than
 > "denyOverridesRuleCombiningAlgorithm", etc..  This is because we talk about
 > evaluating a "Policy", rather than evaluating the combining algorithm.
....
 > Here is the resulting definition.  All the best.  Tim.
 > 
 > Decision Policy(Rule rule[])
 > {

I think all the changes except the first one are good.

However, I think we "evaluate" a particular combining algorithm
in order to reach a Decision for a Policy.  If the algorithm is
named "Policy", then there is no way to distinguish which
particular combining algorithm is being used.

So I prefer retaining the names containing "CombiningAlgorithm"
and the specific algorithm name, such as "DenyOverrides", as the
name of the combining algorithm.

Anne
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