Re: Intro: Thomas Roessler

Hi Thomas:
Could you provide a specific usecase i.e. a specific problem that needs 
solution?
This would help focus our minds.

Thanks!  Ashok

Thomas Roessler wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm Thomas Roessler (tlr on IRC). I work as W3C's Security Activity
>Lead, and am the other Team Contact of this Interest Group.
>
>In the context of this Interest Group, I'm interested in better
>understanding how the different assertion frameworks that various
>identity systems and the Semantic Web provide us with impact policy
>languages and their deployment.
>
>For example, how would an enterprise deal with the combination of
>CardSpace, OpenID, and an RDF based knowledge base that encompasses
>the company's org chart?  And how can it ensure that access control
>policies that are based on these diverse data sources comply with
>legal requirements? ... with policies inherited from business
>partnes? ... with promises made to third parties, possibly again in
>machine-readable languages?
>
>In short, I think that the conversations about combining identity
>frameworks (and about making social network data portable) need to
>be connected to a conversation about combining policy languages,
>both in terms of standards work and research.
>
>My hope for PLING is that it might provide a forum for that.
>
>A happy new year to all,
>  
>


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All the best, Ashok

Received on Saturday, 12 January 2008 19:57:05 UTC