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Re: [xacml] [model] Issues PM-2-02,PM-2-04: Applicability

From: Anne Anderson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 00:36:00 -0000

Polar Humenn <[email protected]> wrote: >But didn't we have some operator like IF-THEN > ><IF-THEN> > <...> > a complex predicate that SHOULD NOT evaluate to n/a > </...> > <INAPPLICABLE/> ></IF-THEN> > >It would have the same semantics as our applicability predicate. >With added semantics if the premise evaluated to INAPPLICABLE then the >entire expression is in Error. I did propose the <if></if><then></then> syntax, but people found that confusing. Since we already had the idea of applicability rules being in the header of the <applicablePolicy>, I thought perhaps having this more detailed applicability rule also in the header would be easier to swallow :-) Anne