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30-day Public Review for XACML Intellectual Property Control (IPC) 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 Intellectual Property Control (IPC) Profile Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 03 / Public Review Draft 03
17 May 2012

Specification Overview:

This specification defines a profile for the use of XACML in expressing policies for intellectual property control (IPC). It defines standard attribute identifiers useful in such policies, and recommends attribute value ranges for certain attributes.

TC Description:

The XACML Technical Committee defines schemas for representing authorization and entitlement policies. This Profile deals with defining Policies for securing Intellectual Property assets.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 20 July 2012 and ends 19 August 2012.

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/3.0/ipc/v1.0/csprd03/xacml-3.0-ipc-v1.0-csprd03-en.doc

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/3.0/ipc/v1.0/csprd03/xacml-3.0-ipc-v1.0-csprd03-en.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/3.0/ipc/v1.0/csprd03/xacml-3.0-ipc-v1.0-csprd03-en.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/3.0/ipc/v1.0/csprd03/xacml-3.0-ipc-v1.0-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 Intellectual Property Control (IPC) Profile Version 1.0, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3.0] 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] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xacml/ipr.php
http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php#s10.2.3
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