15-day Public Review for XACML v3.0 Core and Hierarchical Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Profile Version 1.0

The OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC [1] members  
have produced an updated Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted  
this specification for 15-day public review:

XACML v3.0 Core and Hierarchical Role Based Access Control (RBAC) Profile  
Version 1.0

Committee Specification Draft 04 / Public Review Draft 03

21 July 2011

Specification Overview:

This specification defines a profile for the use of XACML in expressing  
policies that use role based access control (RBAC). It extends the XACML  
Profile for RBAC Version 1.0 to include a recommended AttributeId for roles,  
but reduces the scope to address only "core" and "hierarchical" RBAC. This  
specification has also been updated to apply to XACML 3.0.  

TC Description:

The XACML Technical Committee defines a core XML schema for representing  
authorization and entitlement policies. 

Public Review Period:

The public review starts Friday, 7 October 2011 and ends Saturday, 22 October  
2011. The specification was previously submitted for a 30-day public review  
on 7 May 2010 [2]. This 15-day review is limited in scope to changes made  
from the previous review. 

Changes are highlighted in the diff-marked PDF file included in the ZIP  
file package.

This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from  
potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the  
sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

URI:

The complete package of the prose specification document and related files  
are available in the ZIP distribution file at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/43800/xacml-3.0-rbac-v1-spec-csprd03-en.zip

Additional information about the specification and the OASIS eXtensible  
Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC may be found at the TC's public  
home page located at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the  
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be accessed via the button labeled "Send  
A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/form.php?wg_abbrev=xacml

Feedback submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of  
this TC is publicly archived and can be viewed at:

http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/xacml-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License,  
which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at  
least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public  
review of XACML v3.0 Core and Hierarchical Role Based Access Control (RBAC)  
Profile Version 1.0, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [3]  
applicable especially [4] to the work of this technical committee. All  
members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create  
obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent,  
copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS  
specification. OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to  
disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above  
specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for  
this TC's work.

========== Additional references:

[1] OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xacml 

[2] Previous public reviews:

30-day public review:  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201005/msg00003.html

60-day public review:  
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200905/msg00006.html

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/ipr.php

http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.3

RF on Limited Terms

Best Regards,

/chet

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Chet Ensign

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