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Re: [xacml] Style modifications to combining algorithms

From: Anne Anderson <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 14:23:00 -0000

On 3 September, Tim Moses writes: [xacml] Style modifications to combining algorithms > 1. The name of the function is "Policy", rather than > "denyOverridesRuleCombiningAlgorithm", etc.. This is because we talk about > evaluating a "Policy", rather than evaluating the combining algorithm. .... > Here is the resulting definition. All the best. Tim. > > Decision Policy(Rule rule[]) > { I think all the changes except the first one are good. However, I think we "evaluate" a particular combining algorithm in order to reach a Decision for a Policy. If the algorithm is named "Policy", then there is no way to distinguish which particular combining algorithm is being used. So I prefer retaining the names containing "CombiningAlgorithm" and the specific algorithm name, such as "DenyOverrides", as the name of the combining algorithm. Anne -- Anne H. Anderson Email: [email protected] Sun Microsystems Laboratories 1 Network Drive,UBUR02-311 Tel: 781/442-0928 Burlington, MA 01803-0902 USA Fax: 781/442-1692