Minutes of Octberber 12, 2006 TC Call

[Bill Parducci <bill.parducci@simulalabs.com>]

I. Roll Call & Administration

  Attendees
   Daniel Engovatov
   Hal Lockhart (Co-chair)
   Michiharu Kudo
   Anthony Nadalin
   Argyn Kuketayev
   Abbie Barbir
   Kamalendu Biswas
   Erik Rissanen
   Bill Parducci (Co-chair, minutes)
   Anne Anderson
   David Staggs


   Quorum was achieved (76% per Kavi)

  Vote on Minutes
   No discussion, issues with posted minutes.

   VOTE: Approve minutes from September 28, 2006 meeting
   Approved unanimously.

II. Postings and Proposal Review

   Document Conventions
   Anne reviewed her work with Erik and Oasis to distill a set of
   practical guidelines for the TC.

   Delegation Draft 14
   Erik reviewed the changes in Draft. Delegation now uses Attribute
   Categories. This has simplified the specification considerably. The
   examples need to be updated once the disjunctive matching issue has
   been resolved in the Attribute Category proposal.

   Daniel discussed options on how to address matching and solicited
   feedback from the TC.

   Erik asked why you cannot have a condition at the Policy[Set] level.
   The original thinking was that the conditions should be contained at
   the Rule level. Raising Conditions to the Policy level potentially
   introduces significant complexity to the matching process.

   Erik raised the question on the list of Where we should put
   PolicyIssuer and MultipleCondition. The general consensus is that this
   should reside in the core specification.

   The question of whether to remove the use of URNs in the
   specification (vs. HTTP URI references) was raised on list. URNs were
   originally chosen to call out the non-dereferenceable nature of the
   information. The general consensus is that this not be changed.

   SubjectCategory elements no longer exists and this information is
   mapped to AttributeCategory.

III. Issues

  #47 - WS-Policy Assertion Formats for XACML
   Anne reviewed her proposal for WS-Policy Assertions, then answered a
   few questions. However TC members need more time to study the draft
   more thoroughly before discussing it in detail.

IV. Administrative

   Oasis RF Terms
   In the event "In case the TC is unable to finish its work by April,
   Hal will post a ballot asking if members would be willing to
   transition to the "RF on Limited Terms" IPR option.  Members should
   check with their company's legal and standards departments to see if
   they should vote yes to such a transition.

meeting adjourned.