Re: Draft IG Charter -- Your Comments, Please

Hi Thomas,

here are a few comments:

Technical:

You write:

"
The Policy Languages Interest Group is designed as a forum to support 
researchers, developers, solution providers, and users of policy 
languages such as XACML 
<http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xacml> 
(eXtensible Access Control Markup Language) and P3P <../> (W3C's 
Platform for Privacy Preferences Project). It provides a forum to enable 
broader collaboration, through use of email discussion, scheduled IRC 
topic chats, Wikis, and Weblog tools.
"

I think it would be fair to mention other policy languages as well, such 
as the onces developed within the IETF that enjoy IETF, 3GPP and OMA 
support. Here are the most recent documents:
* Common Policy: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4745
* Geolocation Privacy Policy: 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-geopriv-policy
* Presence Authorization Policy: 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-simple-presence-rules
Common Policy is also used in the consent framework in SIP.



Editorial:

Change from:

"

The Policy Languages Interest Group is a forum for W3C Members and 
 >>>non-Members<<< to discuss interoperability issues - along with 
related requirements and  needs  - that arise when using a variety of 
policy languages where there is a need to compute results across these 
multiple languages.
"
to:

"
The Policy Languages Interest Group is a forum for W3C members and 
non-W3C members to discuss interoperability issues - along with related 
requirements and needs - that arise when using a variety of policy 
languages where there is a need to compute results across these multiple 
languages.

"



Ciao
Hannes


Thomas Roessler wrote:
> It's been a while since the privacy and policy languages workshop
> last October.  We're now initiating the process to launch the
> Interest Group that was discussed toward the end of the workshop.  A
> draft charter is available online:
>
>   http://www.w3.org/Policy/2007/ig-charter
>   
> We're looking for your informal feed-back and comments; simple
> expressions of interest are also welcome and useful.
>
> As usual, an Interest Group is a forum that provides infrastructure
> for building up a community.  An Interest Group *can* produce
> deliverables in the form of Interest Group Notes or workshops, or
> propose further work.  However, it cannot engage in Recommendation
> Track Work by itself.
>
> From the draft charter's scope section:
>
>   The Policy Interest Group is designed as a forum to support
>   researchers, developers, solution providers, and users of policy
>   languages such as XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup
>   Language) and P3P (W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences
>   Project). It provides a forum to enable broader collaboration,
>   through use of email discussion, scheduled IRC topic chats, Wikis,
>   and Weblog tools.
>
>   The group will primarily focus on policy languages that are
>   already specified and broadly address the privacy, access control,
>   and obligation management areas; it is not expected to engage in
>   the design of new policy or rule languages. It will work towards
>   identifying obstacles to a joint deployment of such languages, and
>   suggest requirements and technological enablers that may help
>   overcome such obstacles.
>
>   The Interest Group hosts discussions both of architectural and
>   application interest; it will, in particular, consider use cases
>   in the privacy, access control, identity management and obligation
>   management areas. The group may explore the use of relevant
>   technologies toward delivering interoperability frameworks for
>   policy languages. Relevant technologies include Semantic Web
>   technologies and the work of the W3C Rule Interchange Working
>   Group.
>
> Please direct comments, input, and expressions of interest to the
> workshop follow-up list at <public-privacy06ws@w3.org>.
>
> Regards,
>

Received on Friday, 25 May 2007 11:47:44 UTC