Re: [xacml] Standardized PRP request format?

On 3 June, Gerald Brose writes: [xacml] Standardized PRP request format?
> I was wondering whether the policy request interface between
> the PDP and the PDP would not benefit from a standardized
> interface. Looking at the data flow model on p. 15 of the v13
> draft, I noticed that the return value from the PRP has a
> standard format (viz. XACML policyStatement) but the request
> hasn't.
>
> I would have thought that interoperability using this interface
> would probably be one of the main selling points of XACML
> for PEP/PDP vendors ("mechanism vendors") and PRP/PAP
> vendors ("policy tool vendors").
I think the initial PDP->PRP request format is the RequestContext.  Once one or more PolicySets have been retrieved, subsequent requests might be in the form of a Target and a PolicyID or PolicySetID.  Anne

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