News about an XACML proposal

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@sun.com>]

A couple of people with an interest in things SAML and XACML suggested 
that I forward this news to the TC.

	Eve

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A proposal for implementing a Java[TM] 2 Standard Edition
(J2SE[TM]) Policy Provider that will accept XACML policies as the
policy input can be found at

   http://research.sun.com/projects/xacml/J2SEPolicyProvider.html

This would provide a way for Java applications using the standard
Java Policy API to use XACML policies and all the good stuff that
comes along with XACML:

  o dynamic policies,
  o use of arbitrary Subject and target attributes
    independent of the application,
  o distributed policies,
  o policies shared between multiple applications,
  o policies shared between Java and non-Java applications,
  o role based access control, and
  o resource labels.

Comments are requested by the end of August 2003 to the author,
Anne Anderson <Anne.Anderson@sun.com>


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