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[ws-sx] Comments on Security Policy and a Suggestion

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Ashok Malhotra <>
Date
2006-04-05T16:05:38+00:00
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20060405090734616.00000002828@amalhotr-pc
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[ws-sx] Comments on Security Policy and a Suggestion
Recently, Prateek and I and our product folks started looking at SecurityPolicy
and we were dismayed by the breadth and the complexity.  I doubt that most people
could author Security Policies.  Also, it's not clear if the specification works -- in that
there may be practical situations that users want to express than cannot be expressed
by Security Policy.

So, I thought that what may be useful is to create a small number of usecases that
represent typical customer usages of security in Web Services.  Then we try and write 
Policies for these use cases and see what happens.  

I foresee two benefits from such an exercise:
- We will find bugs and other usage problems and validate the design.
- The resulting policies will be very useful and many users will just be
able to use these canned policies for their work.

I can try and write the policies but someone else needs to provide the usecases.

All the best, Ashok
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