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30-day Public Review for #XACML 3.0 Additional Combining Algorithms Profile V1.0

The OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC [1] members have recently approved a Committee Specification Draft (CSD) and submitted this specification for 30-day public review:

XACML 3.0 Additional Combining Algorithms Profile Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02
09 January 2014

Specification Overview:

This profile defines new useful but optional combining algorithms for 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 30 January 2014 at 00:00 GMT and ends 28 February 2014 15 23:59 GMT. The specification was previously submitted for public review [2]. This review is limited in scope to changes made from the previous review. Changes are highlighted in the diff-marked PDF file [3].

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.

URIs:

The prose specification document and related files are available here:

Editable Source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-3.0-combalgs/v1.0/csprd02/xacml-3.0-combalgs-v1.0-csprd02.doc

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-3.0-combalgs/v1.0/csprd02/xacml-3.0-combalgs-v1.0-csprd02.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-3.0-combalgs/v1.0/csprd02/xacml-3.0-combalgs-v1.0-csprd02.pdf

ZIP distribution file (complete):

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the prose specification and related files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP file here:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-3.0-combalgs/v1.0/csprd02/xacml-3.0-combalgs-v1.0-csprd02.zip

Additional information about the specification and the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC can be found at the TC’s public home page:

https://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 used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page, or directly at:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=xacml

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

https://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 3.0 Additional Combining Algorithms Profile Version 1.0”, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] 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/xacml/

[2] Previous public reviews:
30-day public review, 25 January 2013: https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/201301/msg00016.html

[3] Red-lined diff file:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-3.0-combalgs/v1.0/csprd02/xacml-3.0-combalgs-v1.0-csprd02-diff.pdf

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

[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.3
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