Re: [xacml] Groups - XACML v3.0 Related and Nested Entities Profile Version 1.0 uploaded

[Erik Rissanen <erik@axiomatics.com>]

Hi Steven,

Thanks for the work on this. It looks to me to solve the issues it is designed to solve.

Here are a few small comments:

- Did you intend the whole introduction section to be normative? I guess it's ok as it is, but one could perhaps split of some of the exposition into a non-normative section so that this material does not clutter the normative content with potential ambiguities or mistakes.

- I think it should say that the schema fragments in the document are non-normative. Word can easily auto-suggest and break technical content in the document and we don't want to specify the same thing twice (once in the fragment and once in the full schema)

- In section 2, in the first paragraph after the QuantifiedExpressionType schema fragment, it says that the domain evaluates to a bag of a "primitive data-type". Shouldn't this be "atomic data-type"? I read primitive data type to mean a non-entity data type, but what I believe you mean is that the value must not be a bag.

- I think the schema file should be split out from the word document. Word can easily auto-suggest and break technical content and it is more convenient for implementers and others to have an official schema file to use directly.

- Are there any concerns to worry about when we define additional content into the existing XACML 3.0 namespace and schema? I am not well enough knowledgeable in XML schema best practices, so I am just asking. ;-)

Best regards,
Erik

On 2013-10-22 08:17, Steven Legg wrote:

Submitter's message
This is the initial draft for the Related and Nested Entities Profile - my response to the "Attributes of Relations" email thread. I changed from "Embedded" to "Nested" in the title because it better suggests the idea that entities can be embedded in other entities to any depth. A nested entity is what I have previously called a compound attribute. As well as the ForAny and ForAll expressions that I have discussed on the mailing list I have defined a Select _expression_ as a convenience to policy writers who like to think in SQL terms. The examples go beyond simply addressing the "Attributes of Relations" concerns.
-- Dr. Steven Legg

Document Name: XACML v3.0 Related and Nested Entities Profile Version 1.0

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Description
It is not unusual for access control policy to be dependent on attributes
that are not naturally properties of the access subject or resource, but
rather are properties of entities that are related to the access subject or
resource. This profile defines the means to reference such attributes from
within XACML policies for processing by a policy decision point.
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Submitter: Dr. Steven Legg
Group: OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC
Folder: Specifications and Working Drafts
Date submitted: 2013-10-21 23:17:29