RE: [xacml] Proposed semantics for operations involving INDETERMI NATE

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Daniel Engovatov <>
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2002-07-24T03:04:41+00:00
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RE: [xacml] Proposed semantics for operations involving INDETERMI NATE
Title: RE: [xacml] Proposed semantics for operations involving INDETERMI NATE

> Each boolean function should have a proper result of True or False. Then

> there is no problem.

(1 divide 0) GT (INF plus NAN) ?

> That should be part of a recombination algorithm - how you prioritize

> - for that you need a way to communicate such an evaluation result.

> As for scalability - if you need to evaluate a zillion rules, you may

> want to recombine results from several PDP, each dealing with part of

> the policy - say #1, #2, #3 say N/A, as they have no rules for the

> subject, #4 says GRANT, #5 says ERROR, but #5 is the one handling DENY

> rules.  If it says N/A, I am not sure it is what we want to have..

> Well, our current model, in your example, policies 1,2,3, and 5 would say

> Indeterminate, while #4 says Permit. However, if #5, by some crystal ball,

> may return a Deny. If that is really your intent, then you need to wrap

> the combination of policies with the Bill Parducci Policy Combinator which

> only gives yields Permit if every policy evaluates to Permit.

But if #5 has no PERMIT effect rules?