Re: [xacml] RE: [xacml-comment] Public Comment

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Bill Parducci <>
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2005-12-21T15:49:24+00:00
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Re: [xacml] RE: [xacml-comment] Public Comment
i think this plays well with the concept of a PDP root policy(set).

b

Hal Lockhart wrote:
> I think the idea of more defaults is a good one and I am forwarding this
> to the TC list.
> 
> However, based on past discussions, I believe the TC would be more
> likely to select "deny-overrides" as the default.
> 
> Hal
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
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>>Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:48 AM
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>>Subject: [xacml-comment] Public Comment
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>>Comment from: 
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>>Name: Ludwig Seitz
>>Title: PhD Researcher
>>Organization: Security, Policy and Trust Laboratory, SICS, Sweden
>>Regarding Specification: XACML
>>
>>Hello all,
>>I wanted to suggest some points for the XACML standard with the goal
> 
> of
> 
>>simplifying XACML Policies (by reducing their verboseness).
>>
>>1. Define a default policy/rule combining algorithm, e.g. "permit-
>>overrides", if the attribute PolicyCombiningAlgId/RuleCombiningAlgId
> 
> is
> 
>>missing from a PolicySet/Policy tag.
>>
>>2. Define "string-equal" as default MatchId attribute in SubjectMatch,
>>ResourceMatch and ActionMatch tags.
>>
>>3. Define "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string" as default
> 
> DataType
> 
>>attribute in AttributeValue tags.
>>
>>4. Define "urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:subject:subject-id"/
>>"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:resource:resource-id"/
>>"urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:action:action-id"
>>as default values for the AttributeId attribute of
>>SubjectAttributeDesignator/
>>ResourceAttributeDesignator/
>>ActionAttributeDesignator
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Ludwig Seitz
>>
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