Re: [xacml] Style modifications to combining algorithms

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Anne Anderson <>
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2002-09-03T14:23:00+00:00
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Re: [xacml] Style modifications to combining algorithms
On 3 September, Tim Moses writes: [xacml] Style modifications to combining algorithms
> 1. The name of the function is "Policy", rather than > "denyOverridesRuleCombiningAlgorithm", etc.. This is because we talk about
> evaluating a "Policy", rather than evaluating the combining algorithm. ....
> Here is the resulting definition. All the best. Tim. >
> Decision Policy(Rule rule[]) > { I think all the changes except the first one are good. However, I think we "evaluate" a particular combining algorithm in order to reach a Decision for a Policy. If the algorithm is named "Policy", then there is no way to distinguish which particular combining algorithm is being used. So I prefer retaining the names containing "CombiningAlgorithm" and the specific algorithm name, such as "DenyOverrides", as the name of the combining algorithm. Anne

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