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- <div1 id='Notation_Terminilogy'>
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<head>Notations and Terminology</head>
<p>This section specifies the notations, namespaces, and terminology used in this specification.</p>
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<head>Policy Operators</head>
-<p>To compactly express complex policies, policy operators
+ <p>Policies are used to convey a set of capabilities, requirements, and general characteristics of entities (see <specref ref="tocRange"/>).
+ These are generally expressible as a set of <termref def='policy_alternative'>policy alternatives</termref>.
+ Policy operators (<el>wsp:Policy</el>, <el>wsp:All</el> and <el>wsp:ExactlyOne</el>)
+ are used to group <termref def='policy_assertion'>policy assertions</termref>
+ into <termref def='policy_alternative'>policy alternatives</termref>.
+ In some instances, complex policies expressed in normal form can get relatively large and hard to manage.
+To compactly express complex policies, policy operators
<rfc2119>MAY</rfc2119> be recursively nested; that is, one or more
instances of <el>wsp:Policy</el>, <el>wsp:All</el>, and/or
<el>wsp:ExactlyOne</el> <rfc2119>MAY</rfc2119> be nested within
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<loc href="http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/wspolicyeds/actions/47">47</loc> Issue 3602 Resolution - The absence of an assertion should not mean that the behavior is "explicitly prohibited".
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+ <tr>
+ <td>20061007</td>
+ <td>TIB</td>
+ <td>Completed action item:
+ <loc href="http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/wspolicyeds/actions/19">19</loc> Add an intro paragraph that introduces the material in section 4.3.3.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
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<h2><a name="status">Status of this Document</a></h2><p><strong>This document is an editors' copy that has
no official standing.</strong></p><p></p></div>
<hr><div class="toc">
-<h2><a name="contents">Table of Contents</a></h2><p class="toc">1. <a href="#tocRange">Introduction</a><br> 1.1 <a href="#Example">Example</a><br>2. <a href="#Notation_Terminilogy">Notations and Terminology</a><br> 2.1 <a href="#Notational_Conventions">Notational Conventions</a><br> 2.2 <a href="#Extensibility">Extensibility</a><br> 2.3 <a href="#XML_Namespaces">XML Namespaces</a><br> 2.4 <a href="#Terminology">Terminology</a><br>3. <a href="#Policy_Model">Policy Model</a><br> 3.1 <a href="#rPolicy_Assertion">Policy Assertion</a><br> 3.2 <a href="#rPolicy_Alternative">Policy Alternative</a><br> 3.3 <a href="#rPolicy">Policy</a><br> 3.4 <a href="#Web_services">Policies of Entities in a Web Services Based System</a><br>4. <a href="#rPolicy_Expression">Policy Expression</a><br> 4.1 < href="#Normal_Form_Policy_Expression">Normal Form Policy Expression</a><br> 4.2 <a href="#Policy_Identification">Policy Identification</a><br> 4.3 <a href="#Compact_Policy_Expression">Compact Policy Expression</a><br> 4.3.1 <a href="#Optional_Policy_Assertions">Optional Policy Assertions</a><br> 4.3.2 <a href="#Policy_Assertion_Nesting">Policy Assertion Nesting</a><br> 4.3.3 <a href="#Policy_Operators">Policy Operators</a><br> 4.3.4 <a href="#Policy_References">Policy References</a><br> 4.3.5 <a href="#Policy_Inclusion">Policy Inclusion</a><br> 4.4 <a href="#Policy_Intersection">Policy Intersection</a><br>5. <a href="#Security_Considerations">Security Considerations</a><br> 5.1 <a href"#information-disclosure-threats">Information Disclosure Threats</a><br> 5.2 <a href="#spoofing-and-tampering-threats">Spoofing and Tampering Threats</a><br> 5.3 <a href="#downgrade-threats">Downgrade Threats</a><br> 5.4 <a href="#repudiation-threats">Repudiation Threats</a><br> 5.5 <a href="#denial-of-service-threats">Denial of Service Threats</a><br> 5.6 <a href="#general-xml-considerations">General XML Considerations</a><br>6. <a href="#Conformance">Conformance</a><br></p>
+<h2><a name="contents">Table of Contents</a></h2><p class="toc">1. <a href="#tocRange">Introduction</a><br> 1.1 <a href="#Example">Example</a><br>2. <a href="#Notation_Terminlogy">Notations and Terminology</a><br> 2.1 <a href="#Notational_Conventions">Notational Conventions</a><br> 2.2 <a href="#Extensibility">Extensibility</a><br> 2.3 <a href="#XML_Namespaces">XML Namespaces</a><br> 2.4 <a href="#Terminology">Terminology</a><br>3. <a href="#Policy_Model">Policy Model</a><br> 3.1 <a href="#rPolicy_Assertion">Policy Assertion</a><br> 3.2 <a href="#rPolicy_Alternative">Policy Alternative</a><br> 3.3 <a href="#rPolicy">Policy</a><br> 3.4 <a href="#Web_services">Policies of Entities in a Web Services Based System</a><br>4. <a href="#rPolicy_Expression">Policy Expression</a><br> 4.1 <ahref="#Normal_Form_Policy_Expression">Normal Form Policy Expression</a><br> 4.2 <a href="#Policy_Identification">Policy Identification</a><br> 4.3 <a href="#Compact_Policy_Expression">Compact Policy Expression</a><br> 4.3.1 <a href="#Optional_Policy_Assertions">Optional Policy Assertions</a><br> 4.3.2 <a href="#Policy_Assertion_Nesting">Policy Assertion Nesting</a><br> 4.3.3 <a href="#Policy_Operators">Policy Operators</a><br> 4.3.4 <a href="#Policy_References">Policy References</a><br> 4.3.5 <a href="#Policy_Inclusion">Policy Inclusion</a><br> 4.4 <a href="#Policy_Intersection">Policy Intersection</a><br>5. <a href="#Security_Considerations">Security Considerations</a><br> 5.1 <a href=#information-disclosure-threats">Information Disclosure Threats</a><br> 5.2 <a href="#spoofing-and-tampering-threats">Spoofing and Tampering Threats</a><br> 5.3 <a href="#downgrade-threats">Downgrade Threats</a><br> 5.4 <a href="#repudiation-threats">Repudiation Threats</a><br> 5.5 <a href="#denial-of-service-threats">Denial of Service Threats</a><br> 5.6 <a href="#general-xml-considerations">General XML Considerations</a><br>6. <a href="#Conformance">Conformance</a><br></p>
<h3><a name="appendix" id="appendix">Appendices</a></h3><p class="toc">A. <a href="#References">References</a><br> A.1 <a href="#Normative-References">Normative References</a><br> A.2 <a href="#Informative-References">Other References</a><br>B. <a href="#acknowledgments">Acknowledgements</a> (Non-Normative)<br>C. <a href="#change-description">Changes in this Version of the Document</a> (Non-Normative)<br>D. <a href="#change-log">Web Services Policy 1.5 - Framework Change Log</a> (Non-Normative)<br></p></div><hr><div class="body">
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-<h2><a name="Notation_Terminilogy"></a>2. Notations and Terminology</h2>
+<h2><a name="Notation_Terminlogy"></a>2. Notations and Terminology</h2>
<p>This section specifies the notations, namespaces, and terminology used in this specification.</p>
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<h4><a name="Policy_Operators"></a>4.3.3 Policy Operators</h4>
-<p>To compactly express complex policies, policy operators
+ <p>Policies are used to convey a set of capabilities, requirements, and general characteristics of entities (see <a href="#tocRange"><b>1. Introduction</b></a>).
+ These are generally expressible as a set of <a title="policy alternative" href="#policy_alternative">policy alternatives</a>.
+ Policy operators (<code class="elt">wsp:Policy</code> , <code class="elt">wsp:All</code> and <code class="elt">wsp:ExactlyOne</code> )
+ are used to group <a title="policy assertion" href="#policy_assertion">policy assertions</a>
+ into <a title="policy alternative" href="#policy_alternative">policy alternatives</a>.
+ In some instances, complex policies expressed in normal form can get relatively large and hard to manage.
+To compactly express complex policies, policy operators
<span class="rfc2119">MAY</span> be recursively nested; that is, one or more
instances of <code class="elt">wsp:Policy</code> , <code class="elt">wsp:All</code> , and/or
<code class="elt">wsp:ExactlyOne</code> <span class="rfc2119">MAY</span> be nested within
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<a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/wspolicyeds/actions/47">47</a> Issue 3602 Resolution - The absence of an assertion should not mean that the behavior is "explicitly prohibited".
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+ <tr>
+ <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">20061007</td>
+ <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">TIB</td>
+ <td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Completed action item:
+ <a href="http://www.w3.org/2005/06/tracker/wspolicyeds/actions/19">19</a> Add an intro paragraph that introduces the material in section 4.3.3.
+ </td>
+ </tr>
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