Combining Algorithms & the Hierarchical Resource profile

[<remon.sinnema@emc.com>]

All,

I see no reference to a combining algorithm (CA) in the Hierarchical Resource profile. Are policy writers expected to use the core CAs, or are they expected to write their own CAs specific to this profile?

I expected there to be some CA that gives precedence to rules that match lower in the tree. For example, given the following tree of resources:

A
|
+-- B
|
+-- C
    |
    +-- D

And two rules that target resource-ancestor at A and D, respectively, I expected the one at D to take precedence for a request with resource-id=D, but I can find nothing in the profile that actually makes that happen. Am I missing something?


Thanks,
Ray