One could argue that a policy consumer is one who consumes policy, for
whatever purpose.
I certainly agree that the agency that computes intersection need not
necessarily be a
web service consumer (client).
Cheers,
Christopher Ferris
STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/chrisferris
phone: +1 508 377 9295
public-ws-policy-request@w3.org wrote on 02/21/2007 08:25:22 AM:
>
> Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
> > Target : WS-Policy Primer, Section 2.7
> >
> > Proposal : Update the last sentence : "Please note that the
> ignorableness is at
> > the discretion of policy consumers therefore ignorable assertions
> may have an
> > impact on determining compatibility of policies"
> >
>
> Ignorable is a property whose relevance is at the discretion of the
> entity that computes the intersection. That may or may not be a policy
> consumer.
>
> Fabian
>
>