Re: [xacml] New Item - Clarify Input Context Usage

Sounds OK to me.

Anne

On 20 January, Hal Lockhart writes: [xacml] New Item - Clarify Input Context Usage
 > From: Hal Lockhart <>
 > To: 
 > Subject: [xacml] New Item - Clarify Input Context Usage
 > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:10:12 -0500
 > 
 > Section 6.1 begins:
 > 
 > The <Request> element is a top-level element in the XACML context schema.
 > The <Request> element is an abstraction layer used by the policy language.
 > Any proprietary system using the XACML specification MUST transform its
 > decision request into the form of an XACML context <Request>.
 > 
 > I believe this should be changed to:
 > 
 > The <Request> element is a top-level element in the XACML context schema.
 > The <Request> element is an abstraction layer used by the policy language.
 > For simplicity of expression, this document describes policy evaluation in
 > terms of operations on the context. However a conforming PDP is not required
 > to actually instantiate the context in the form of an XML document. But, any
 > system conforming to the XACML specification MUST produce exactly the same
 > decisions as if all the inputs had been transformed into the form of an
 > XACML context <Request>.
 > 
 > Hal
 > 
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