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Subject: Re: [xacml] minutes 15 January 2009 TC meeting


All,

See some corrections inline.

Rich.Levinson wrote:
> Date: 15-Jan-09
> Time: 10:00 am ET
> Tel: 512-225-3050 Access Code: 65998
>
> Agenda:
>
> 10:00 - 10:05 Roll Call & Approve Minutes
>
>   (Note: while we are on weekly schedule, Bill and Rich are
>    doing alternate weeks of mtg proposal and minutes.)
>
> Roll Call:
>
> Voting Members
>
> Erik Rissanen      Axiomatics AB
> Bill Parducci     Individual
> Rich Levinson     Oracle Corporation
> Hal Lockhart     Oracle Corporation
> Anil Saldhana     Red Hat
> Seth Proctor     Sun Microsystems
>
> Members
>
> Darran Rolls     SailPoint Technologies
> John Tolbert     The Boeing Company   
>
>     6/9 voting: have quorum
>
> Approve Minutes:
>
>  8 January 2009 TC Meeting Minutes - Update #2:
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00030.html
>
> 10:05 - 10:10 Administrivia
>  Jira/Subversion update
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00008.html
>
>     TC can only have single jira project, they suggest profiles
>     be "tasks" so we have to update "everything".
>
>     Bill proposes we continue working the way we have been,     i.e 
> not use Jira.
>
>     Erik: maybe just use it for core.
>
>     Hal: that would be confusing w multiple places to look for
>     issues.
>
>     Not clear why Jira is being managed as only one project     per 
> TC, but that appears to be unworkable for us right now.
>
>  Public Review of XSPA Profile of XACML v2.0 for Healthcare v1.0
>  60 day review cycle begins:
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00013.html
>
>     The "related files" ref'd in the email have pointers to them
>     in the references section of the document.
>
>
> 10:10 - 11:00 Issues
>
> Issues within TC:
>
>  Advice Obligation Type (Erik updated proposal based on last week's
>  discussion, there were also follow-up emails to this email):
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00017.html
>
>     Main issue: do we want 2 options. Erik withdrew proposal.
>     Consider other ways to solve use case.
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00034.html
>
>  Multi-Decision Profile Proposal (also may address all or part
>  of "Subject Inconsistencies" from last week):
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00015.html
>  and follow-up emails.
>
>     "Multi-decision": current suggestion Hal's scheme <Attributes>
>      level items get xml:id attrs, preceded by list of sets of      
> items that are combined into virtual request context. These      lists 
> could have multiples of same category interpreted as
>      cross product.
>
>     Hole in scheme: each list produces single decision. Cross
>     product requires multiple responses.
>

I don't think there was any hole in it.

>     Hal will do revised scheme. Any attribute in 2.0 can be marked
>     for return, and then used for correlation.
>
>     Erik in 3.0 can say what attr values you want back.
>     in 2.0 in result can set ResourceId and that's all.
>
>     Hal: in 3.0 "IncludeInResult"
>
>     Rich: Possibly a CorrelationId attribute in the Attributes
>     element would be more useful, since results are based on
>     combos of Attributes elements, not the child Attribute
>     elements. Also, could result in adding extraneous attrs to
>     the Attributes collection just for purpose of correlation.
>
>  Policy Combining (additional review was in progress):
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00016.html
>
>     Tony was to get back w their analysis
>
>
>  Returning a Request Context in the Decision Request Protocol
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00014.html
>
>     Use cases: Erik asked to clarify the feature: the main
>     issue appears to be what, in addition to original submitted
>     request may be returned - i.e. additional attrs obtained by
>     PDP from other contexts may not be ok to return to PEP.

I was happy with the wording Hal had suggested. No clarification needed. 
I just need to update the doc.

>  Possible problems w hierarchical profile:
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00031.html
>
>     Rich: main issue is that "hierarchy" is ambiguously defined.
>     Thinks that hierarchy should mean one parent, one root. In
>     general, multiple "hierarchies" can be brought to bear on
>     given decision, and a given node can belong to multiple
>     hierarchies, and the hierarchies may span different collections
>     of resources and/or have partial/complete spanning of one set
>     of resources, but each "hierarchy" should be one parent     one root.
>
>     DAG can map one to another and allows multiple parents.
>
>     (Rich: but that's a "DAG" not a hierarchy, this is not
>      the DAG profile of XACML.)
>
>     URL hierarchy and file hierarchy
>
>     Hal, Seth: it was used to emulate some policy models that
>      used hierarchical scheme and some still had constructs
>      non-representable.
>
>     Seth thinks it should be cleaned up. But is it worth it.
>
>     Anil: agree hier profile w seth. Is it used or not?
>
>     Seth: largely unused.
>
>     Allows policies to make references to hierarchical entities
>     without knowing who related to who.
>
>     Hal: profile just had "usable amount of stuff".
>
>     Rich: scope in multi-profile vs parent/ancestor in hier
>      will come up w suggestion for how to address.
>
>     Erik sent helpful memo just prior to discussion, but it was
>     not read in time for discussion:
>      http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00037.html
>
> Meeting adjourned - remaining issues next time:
>
> Issues from xacml-comments and xacml-users lists:
>
>  What are rules, if any, for schema-validating Requests and PolicySets
>   prior to delivery to the PDP. If some do, some don't then what does
>   this do to interoperability and overall security concerns:
>    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml-users/200901/msg00023.html
>
>  XSPA Profile has some inaccessible links:
>   http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml-comment/200901/msg00000.html
>
>
>
>
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