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Minutes 5 December 2024 XACML TC Meeting

  • 1.  Minutes 5 December 2024 XACML TC Meeting

    Posted 12-05-2024 16:04
    Time: 2:30 PM EST
    Zoom Link: http://tinyurl.com/48n4yrzs
    Meeting ID: 850 9753 8468

    Minutes for 5 December 2024 TC Meeting

    I. Roll Call & Minutes
    Voting members
    Hal Lockhart (Co-Chair)
    Bill Parducci (Co-Chair)
    Steven Legg
    Cyril Dangerville
    Voting Members: 4 of 4 (100% - quorum)

    Approve Minutes for 7 November, 2024 TC meeting
    https://groups.oasis-open.org/discussion/minutes-xacml-7-november-2024-tc-meeting
    Vote: Approved unanimously.

    II. Administrivia
    GitHub “cc” to List update status
    Bill:
    We had a bit of a hiccup with the "cc" app from github and the agent has been disabled
    pending resolution.

    Calendar
    Hall:
    The calendar has been updated with meeting times Through March. In April will move back
    to 4:30 EDT (unless TC decides upon another time)/

    III. Issues
    Follow-up from last meeting
    Steven:
    I am still working on the the ToDo list from last meeting: changing markdown to handle
    indented paragraphs in the visually appealing way we discussed; continue making changes
    to draft to simplify/reduce stuff: Combining Parameters (with the view that nothing is
    taken out that cannot be achieved in another way); merge Obligation with Advice;
    Decompose documents (XML/JSON, XPath JSONpath), will rename later. Implement markdown
    change Bill and I came up with.

    Cyril:
    Please make sure to use the latest version I've committed. I also fixed some PDF issues.

    Steven:
    Yes, I have the latest version. I will use that as the basis for any changes.

    Document Generation
    Cyril:
    I am testing a UML tool to generate all elements of XACML programmatically.
    [ shared screen of current work, discussed ]
    Noted that there are a number "tricks" that need to be used to manage attributes, etc.
    The goal is to have automatic schema generation in XML, JSON, etc. This abstract
    agnostic model should help develop the specification across schema languages.


    There was a general discussion of how to express choices, expressions, etc.

    Naming Convention
    Cyril:
    Would it be possible to change case so that XML types are capitalized. It would make
    things cleaner/easier in the automated generation work.

    Steven:
    I think it would make sense to keep it for the XML version for familiarity. For JSON,
    etc. we should have an field to follow what is normal there.

    Bill:
    To capture for clarity our guiding principles are:
    XML = consistency with previous versions to ease transition
    JSON = use the case/naming that is typical for JSON

    General consensus is that is the approach we should use.

    General discussion on formatting as Cyril walked through latest HTML/PDF generation.

    Next meeting in 5 weeks (1 extra week to accomodate holiday schedules)

    meeting adjourned.