Re: NEW ISSUE: Clarify the policy model for Web Services

Daniel

Can you please send a PDF, I appear to be unable to open this file.

Thanks

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia


On Sep 13, 2006, at 11:43 AM, ext Daniel Roth wrote:

> To help people process this proposal, I created the attached diff  
> in Word so you can see what is changing.
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> Yakov, please make sure that the diff looks right.
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> Daniel Roth
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> From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-policy- 
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Sverdlov, Yakov
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 7:27 AM
> To: public-ws-policy@w3.org
> Subject: Re: NEW ISSUE: Clarify the policy model for Web Services
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> Here’s the draft proposal for section 3.4. As you can see, I tried  
> to minimize the changes.
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> Regards,
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> Yakov Sverdlov
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> CA
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> 3.4 Policies of Entities in a Web Services-based System
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> Applied in the Web services-based system, policy is used to convey  
> conditions on an interaction between entities (requester  
> application, provider service, Web infrastructure component, etc).  
> Any entity in a Web services-based system may expose a policy to  
> convey conditions under which it functions. Satisfying assertions  
> in the policy usually results in behavior that reflects these  
> conditions. For example, if two entities – requester and provider –  
> expose their policies, a requester might use the policy of the  
> provider to decide whether or not to use the service. A requester  
> may choose any alternative since each is a valid configuration for  
> interaction with the service, but a requester MUST choose only a  
> single alternative for an interaction with a service since each  
> represents an alternative configuration.
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> A policy assertion is supported by an entity in the web services- 
> based system if and only if the entity satisfies the requirement  
> (or accommodates the capability) corresponding to the assertion. A  
> policy alternative is supported by an entity if and only if the  
> entity supports all the assertions in the alternative. And, a  
> policy is supported by an entity if and only if the entity supports  
> at least one of the alternatives in the policy. Note that although  
> policy alternatives are meant to be mutually exclusive, it cannot  
> be decided in general whether or not more than one alternative can  
> be supported at the same time.
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> Note that an entity may be able to support a policy even if the  
> entity does not understand the type of each assertion in the  
> vocabulary of the policy; the entity only has to understand the  
> type of each assertion in the vocabulary of a policy alternative  
> the entity supports. This characteristic is crucial to versioning  
> and incremental deployment of new assertions because this allows a  
> provider's policy to include new assertions in new alternatives  
> while allowing entities to continue to use old alternatives in a  
> backward-compatible manner.
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Received on Wednesday, 13 September 2006 19:06:14 UTC