Paul,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyson, Paul H [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 3:12 PM
> To: Erik Rissanen;
> Subject: RE: [xacml] Multiple obligations
>
> I'm not sure we should tie obligation-combining with policy- or rule-
> combining, since they are really orthogonal concerns.
Obligations are to be returned from applicable rules *that were evaluated* (Section 7.18). Since the combining algorithms define which rules are evaluated, they also define which obligations are returned. So the two orthogonal concerns currently are tied.
I agree that this is not optimal.
Thanks,
Ray