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Re: [xacml] [schema] PDP response where no policy applies

  • 1.  Re: [xacml] [schema] PDP response where no policy applies

    Posted 07-26-2002 19:43
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    Subject: Re: [xacml] [schema] PDP response where no policy applies


    
    I have the same opinion. From PDP viewpoint, I think PDP should return
    permit or deny as a final decision. So, this Indeterminate case would need
    denial decision. I think this is a "default denial policy". (I think
    default permit policy is too dangerous to implement but some application
    may need that.) It would be wise to add some reason e.g."because of
    indeterminate" as an advice (or as some status code). My thought is that
    this is NOT mandatory to implement. Anyway it is helpful when you are
    debugging the policy to see whether it is caused by insufficient target
    matching or strict access denial. (I think we had discussed this topic long
    time ago). If so, we need two different combination algorithms, one for
    rules and another for policyStatement/policySetStatment that finally
    returns denial.
    
    Michiharu
    
    IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory, Internet Technology
    Tel. +81 (46) 215-4642   Fax +81 (46) 273-7428
    
    
    
    
                                                                                                                                      
                          Anne Anderson                                                                                               
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                                                   Subject:  [xacml] [schema] PDP response where no policy applies                    
                          2002/07/27 03:23                                                                                            
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                          Anne.Anderson                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                      
    
    
    
    If absolutely none of its policies applies, then is the PDP
    obligated to return Indeterminate(Inapplicable)?
    
    If the PDP wants to return Deny if no policies apply, does it
    have to define a base policy with a DenyOverrides rule?
    
    We should spell this sort of behavior out in the spec.
    
    Anne
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    Sun Microsystems Laboratories
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