[Bug 4479] Editorial, note is obscure or unclear

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4479

           Summary: Editorial, note is obscure or unclear
           Product: WS-Policy
           Version: CR
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows XP
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Framework
        AssignedTo: fsasaki@w3.org
        ReportedBy: bob@freunds.com
         QAContact: public-ws-policy-qa@w3.org


In WS-Policy 1.5 Framework Section 3.2 it is written:
"Note: Depending on the semantics of the domain specific policy assertions a
combination of the policy assertions can be required to specify a particular
behavior."

It is unclear to this reader if the assertion set alone is sufficient to
specify a domain specific behavior or if the compatible assertions produced as
the result of the default intersection algorithm are what is meant in the
context of this note.  If this note is intended to mean that assertions alone
suffice, then it seems that policy authors have the freedom to define arbitrary
policy vocabularies and arbitrary policy alternative vocabularies so long as
they have defined the domain specific behavior for all acceptible combinations
within that domain of such assertions independant of any other rules which may
be described within this document.

I think that this note needs qualification or clarification.

Received on Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:08:29 UTC