Re: [xacml] A problem with the Target

[Argyn <jawabean@gmail.com>]

On 2/20/07, Erik Rissanen <mirty@sics.se> wrote:
> Argyn wrote:
> > Eric
> >
> > On 2/20/07, Erik Rissanen <mirty@sics.se> wrote:
> >
> >> However, this was possible with subject categories in 2.0. So we are no
> >> longer backwards compatible with 2.0.
> >
> > what do you mean by backwards compatibility in this case?
>
> That it is not possible to map/translate 2.0 policies into equivalent
> 3.0 policies. This has been a goal with the 3.0 work so there is an easy
> migration path and we cover all previous use cases.

it seems that we need a tool, which would verify that we can translate
2.0 to 3.0 policies. otherwise, how do we know that we are backward
compatible?

we need to automatically convert all 2.0 conformance tests into 3.0
and see that they were converted correctly.

thanks
argyn