Hello,
Now that we are in the process of public review, I wanted to share some comments that I have had on the privacy profile. I think the privacy profile can be
updates to support much broader privacy policies.
Purpose constraints can take the following basic forms (there might be more complex/combined forms but let’s only consider the most common forms):
1. white list: a list of purposes that are allowed. Any other purposes will be denied.
2. black list: a list of prohibited purposes. Any other purpose will be allowed.
These constraints can be combined with other authorization factors and form purpose-based policies. The following are the main categories for such policies.
These can be combined to form more complex policies.
A.
Action-centric: a purpose constraint on the action or action attributes: e.g.
"printing is only allowed for the purpose of treatment."
"research purpose is forbidden for remote actions."
B.
Resource-centric: a purpose constraints on the use of a certain resource or a group of resources: e.g.
"Alice's medical record must only be used for the purpose of treatment."
"Reproductive health data must not be used for the purpose of research."
C.
Subject-centric: a purpose constraint on the subject or a group of subjects: e.g.
"The purpose of treatment is forbidden for members of the role 'admin'."
"Research staff can only assume the purpose of research."
D.
Environment-centric: a purpose constraint on the environmental attributes: e.g.
"No action for the purpose of ‘product research’ is allowed on the sales department computers."
"The only purposes allowed outside business hours are telephone and email marketing."
The current profile only supports type 1.B.
My suggestions is that the attributes definitions be extended and remain normative while the standard rules section is made non-normative and extended to incorporate
the above forms as different possible forms of purpose-based policies.
Regards,
Regards,
Mohammad Jafari, Ph.D.
Security Architect, Edmond Scientific Company
I have also posted an announcement to the OASIS and XACML LinkedIn groups, Twitter and the OASIS FaceBook page. Feel free to like/comment/retweet these announcements to spread the word.
Please consider forwarding these announcement on to other parties who may be interested in the work. In my experience, TCs that actively solicit outside review get more and better quality feedback on their specifications.
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Let me know if you have any questions regarding the review or next steps.
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