OASIS eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) TC

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Issue 71, Treating different subject categories as different entities

  • 1.  Issue 71, Treating different subject categories as different entities

    Posted 06-08-2008 15:01
    All,
    
    Issue 71 proposes that multiple Attributes elements with the same 
    category should be treated as distinct elements.
    
    This is contrary to how it was in 2.0 and how 3.0 is currently.
    
    I propose that we do not adopt the proposal and that issue 71 is closed 
    without action.
    
    There are two reasons for this:
    
    1) A minor reason is that it clashes with the multiple request syntax. 
    But this would be trivial to fix by introducing some other syntax for 
    the multiple requests.
    
    2) It significantly changes the behavior of the very basics of XACML.
    
    The current AttributeDesignator functionality breaks since then it is no 
    longer clear which particular instance of an