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30-day Public Review for #XACML MAP Authorization 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 MAP Authorization Profile Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
14 November 2013

Specification Overview:

This specification defines a profile for the use of XACML in expressing policies for the Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Network Connect (TNC) Metadata Access Points (MAP). It defines standard attribute identifiers useful in such policies, in which a MAP utilizes an XACML Policy Decision Point (PDP) to make MAP content authorization decisions.

TC Description:

The XACML Technical Committee defines a core XML schema for representing authorization and entitlement policies.

Public Review Period:

The public review starts 00:00 GMT 17 December 2013 and ends 23:59 GMT 15 January 2014.

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-map-authz/v1.0/csprd01/xacml-map-authz-v1.0-csprd01.doc

HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-map-authz/v1.0/csprd01/xacml-map-authz-v1.0-csprd01.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/xacml-map-authz/v1.0/csprd01/xacml-map-authz-v1.0-csprd01.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-map-authz/v1.0/csprd01/xacml-map-authz-v1.0-csprd01.zip

Additional information about the specification and the 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 located via the button labeled “Send A Comment” at the top of the TC public home, 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 MAP Authorization Profile Version 1.0”, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [2] applicable especially [3] 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
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#s10.2.3
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