Minutes 5 February 2009 TC Meeting

[Bill Parducci <bill@parducci.net>]

1. Roll Call
    Hal Lockhart (Chair)
    Bill Parducci (Co-Chair, minutes)
    Erik Rissanen
    Anil Tappetla
    Rich Levinson
    Anil Saldhana
    Darran Rolls
    Seth Proctor
    John Tolbert
    Duane DeCouteau

   Voting Members: 9 of 11 (81%) (used for quorum calculation)

2. Administrivia
    Deprecation terminology
    There is general agreement that notation be made for functions and
    features that are planned for deprecation in the future. Erik will
    post the next draft while Hal investigates the practices of ITU-T,
    etc.

    Repository
    Bill will check in the conformance test into the Oasis subversion
    repository now that it is ready.

    FEMA RFI
    FEMA has posted an RFI that may be of interest to XACML and/or SAML
    vendors.

    Implementation
    Hal will post a message to the list regarding being notified of a
    "near natural language" editor implementation.

3. Issues
    Hierarchical Resource Profile
    Rich reviewed his posting of the HR Profile. Darran raised questions
    on the ramifications of "tree walking" capabilities. Rich plans to
    apply Erik's example to his proposal rigorously to flesh out the
    definition and evaluation mechanisms.
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00056.html
    http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml/200901/msg00079.html

    There was a submission to the comment list re: URI datatype
    limitations. Rich noted that this is the type of issue he is trying
    to resolve within his proposal. Erik suggested that the request
    is to be allowed to allow for mixed datatypes (Hal noted that so
    long as you are not trying to match across datatypes this should be
    acceptable.)

    RBAC Profile
    Darran asked if this Profile has been in used in the interops. Rich
    noted that it was tested in the RSA interop 2008 and that is
    referenced in the corresponding documentation posted to the TC site.
    Darran will continue the discussion on the list.
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xacml#expository
    http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=28030&wg_abbrev=xacm

  meeting adjourned.