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[xacml] Scope for hierarchical resource

  • 1.  [xacml] Scope for hierarchical resource

    Posted 07-26-2004 11:56
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    Subject: [xacml] Scope for hierarchical resource



    Let me clarify my comments on hierarchical resource.

    >Tim: But what if document treated one way in policy, but request
    >   submitted other way.  resource identifier would identify as a
    >   single resource or as a structured document.

    I am assuming that the semantics of the resource identifier may vary from application to application. I think it is up to the contract (agreement) between PEP and PDP and difficult to enforce syntactical restriction on URI to distinguish single resource from a structured resource as a standard. Please correct me if I am wrong.

    For example, an access to a file is considered as an access to a single resource. An access to one element in a XML document is also considered as an access to a single resource. On the other hand, access to an entire directory and an access to a subtree (i.e. elements and attributes) in XML document is not considered as a single resource access.

    One way to tell XACML policy engine about this distinction is to use scope attribute in the request. If the request specify decendant as a scope, there needs some way to address target resource hierarchical structure otherwise the engine cannot know the decendants.

    Best,
    Michiharu

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