Minutes 9 October 2008 TC Meeting

1. Roll Call

Hal Lockhart (minutes)

Bill Parducci (Co-chair, minutes)

Erik Rissanen

Rich Levinson

Seth Proctor

Duane DeCouteau

David Staggs

Anil Saldhana

(non-voting)

Darran Rolls

Brett Burley

John Tolbert

  Quorum reached Voting Members: 8 of 9 (88%)

2. Administrivia

Vote on Minutes from 25 September 2008

Approved with unanimous consent

Duane reviewed the latest updates to the XSPA Profile and moved

that it be promoted to Committee Draft. David seconded the motion.

VOTE to promote XSPA to Committee Draft.

Abstain: Hal, Rich, Erik

No: none

Yes: Seth, Duane, David, Anil, Bill

3. Issues

Unicode Character Normalization

There is general agreement to adopt Erik's proposal to leverage the

W3 specification:

http://www.w3.org/TR/2005/WD-charmod-norm-20051027/

Unicode Codepoint Collation

There is general agreement to use Unicode Codepoint Collation for

character/string comparison using mechanisms defined by XPath:

http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/collation/codepoint

Combining Algorithm Text

Erik posted the updated verbiage for the combining algorithms to

the list. The question was raised if new combiner identifiers should

be added for clarity of changes in behavior. Hal and Erik suggested

that the v2 be left as is and v3 combining logic be updated without

changing identifiers since it is extremely unlikely that

Indeterminate is being used as an intended outcome for access control

by the Policy Writer. The chair has asked that the TC be prepared to

vote on this issue at the next meeting.

Case Conversion

Erik posted a proposal to reference XQuery using the Unicode 3.2.0

standard. There is general agreement by the TC that this is a good

approach and the TC should make use of the latest version of the

Unicode specification.

Policy Reference Evaluation

The TC had general agreement to follow the text posted to the list

by Erik.

#66 - MIssing Attributes

Erik outlined his proposal for taking an alternate approach to how

to solve "underspecified" attribute.  Erik and Rich will add details

to the text to generate a more concrete proposal. Hal suggested

that WS-XACML work has applicability to this solution.

Target Namespace Attribute

There is general agreement that V3 will drop the check on:

urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:resource:target-namespace

V3 Functionality

There is general agreement that the scope of features in the Core

of V3 will be frozen by the next TC meeting. Work on the Core will

be limited to resolving the Issues outlined at the next meeting.

Rich proposed that the TC review the changes and thinking behind V3.

He will post to the list to start a thread on the subject.

meeting adjourned