- From: Dale Moberg <dmoberg@us.axway.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 10:43:13 -0700
- To: <public-ws-policy@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <97085FEE4C8BDB4AB6FA3E770EBC79BB0110F5F8@mail1.cyclonecommerce.com>
Hi Ashok,
As long as you do A and B by doing those behaviors, I think it is OK to
do C as well (well, as long as C is not inconsistent with A and B, which
I assume it won't be because by assumption you have an implementation
that does all three of A B and C!!)
If your implementation of the A&B behaviors also does C, why not?
Anyway, I think you have another reason for getting rid of the IBM
exclusionary language. It just causes trouble.
However, I don't think you can tell whether you will interoperate with
no problems. Maybe, maybe not. But I don't see that adding exclusionary
language really does much to guarantee interoperability personally. It
is best an informal hope.
Dale Moberg
________________________________
From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-ws-policy-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ashok Malhotra
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 8:09 AM
To: Christopher B Ferris
Cc: Daniel Roth; David Orchard; public-ws-policy@w3.org;
public-ws-policy-request@w3.org
Subject: RE: AIN, NOBI and composition
I'm trying to ask a very simple question and am being deflected by
words.
Here is another attempt using the 'b' word. Please just select from
one of the multiple choice alternatives.
If the selected policy is
<policy>
<A/>
<B/>
</policy>>
Can I apply the behavior(s) implied by C, an assertion which is not
contained in the selected policy alternative?
- Yes
- No
- Don't know. Can't tell
- All of the above.
All the best, Ashok
________________________________
From: Christopher B Ferris [mailto:chrisfer@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 6:12 AM
To: Ashok Malhotra
Cc: Daniel Roth; David Orchard; public-ws-policy@w3.org;
public-ws-policy-request@w3.org
Subject: RE: AIN, NOBI and composition
I don't know what C or Z imply. Again, you keep adding assertions to the
mix. The statement we proposed
says NOTHING about assertions. It speaks ONLY about BEHAVIORS.
I cannot make this any more clear than that.
There are a set of behaviors implied by the set of assertions IN an
alternative.
Those and ONLY THOSE implied behaviors are to be applied, full stop.
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 05/10/2007 08:48:27 AM:
> Chris:
> I was being deliberately provocative to get you to spell out the
> exact semantics. So, if the selected policy is
> <policy>
> <A/>
> <B/>
> </policy>
>
> What can I do, or can I not do wrt C or Z?
> All the best, Ashok
>
> From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-policy-
> request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Christopher B Ferris
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:02 AM
> To: Ashok Malhotra
> Cc: Daniel Roth; David Orchard; public-ws-policy@w3.org; public-ws-
> policy-request@w3.org
> Subject: RE: AIN, NOBI and composition
>
>
> Ashok,
>
> Bzzzt.
>
> Where in the text that I have offered is the RFC2119 keyword "MUST
> NOT"? The proposal that IBM has offered
> does NOT require that you know the unknowable (the complete set of
> policy alternatives in the universe).
> The proposal we have offered is an attempt to make it clear that a
> policy alternative is a complete
> expression of the set of behaviors to be engaged.
>
> If we have the "makes no claims" interpretation, then a policy
> author is free to (for instance) exclude the
> security policy necessary to the interaction on the grounds that it
> is too complicated. Thus, an endpoint
> wishing to interact with an endpoint whose policy was authored by
> this lazy policy author would find
> out the hard way that the message needed to be signed and encrypted
> in order to be processed.
>
> We believe that in order for policy to have value, it must be a
> complete expression of the behaviors
> that are engaged for purposes of interaction.
>
> This has nothing to do with omniscience of policy assertion
> vocabularies and exclusion of the
> set of behaviors implied by those absent from a given policy
alternative.
>
> IBM wants a policy alternative to be able to be taken at face value
> as the expression of the
> set of behaviors that are to be used to interact (interoperate) with
> the attached policy subject.
>
> 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 05/09/2007 06:11:23 PM:
>
> >
> > Yes, David, I agree. Let me put it more starkly.
> > Chris' proposal is that if the agreed on policy is:
> >
> > <policy>
> > <A/>
> > <B/>
> > </policy>
> >
> > Then you MUST NOT do assertion X or Y or any other assertions for
> that matter.
> >
> > This means that you must know the universe of all possible
assertions.
> > The <encoding> assertion is one you may not think about but unless
> > you specify <encoding> you cannot do it, according to this proposal.
> >
> >
> > All the best, Ashok
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-policy-
> > > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Orchard
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 9:24 AM
> > > To: Daniel Roth; Ashok Malhotra; public-ws-policy@w3.org
> > > Subject: RE: AIN, NOBI and composition
> > >
> > >
> > > We continue to talk past each other. I think the following two
> > > sentences are equivalent:
> > > "No behaviors are to be applied for the alternative other than the
> > > behaviors specified by the assertions in the alternative"
> > > "The absence of an assertion means that the behaviour specified by
the
> > > absent assertion should not be applied".
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dave
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Daniel Roth [mailto:Daniel.Roth@microsoft.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:52 PM
> > > > To: David Orchard; Ashok Malhotra; public-ws-policy@w3.org
> > > > Subject: RE: AIN, NOBI and composition
> > > >
> > > > > AIN Closed flavour: Any assertion not in an alternative
> > > > should not be
> > > > > applied (revised chris proposal)
> > > >
> > > > Chris' revised proposal doesn't say anything about the
> > > > absence of assertions. It simply says that no behaviors are
> > > > to be applied for the alternative other than the behaviors
> > > > specified by the assertions in the alternative.
> > > >
> > > > Daniel Roth
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: David Orchard [mailto:dorchard@bea.com]
> > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:42 PM
> > > > To: Ashok Malhotra; Daniel Roth; public-ws-policy@w3.org
> > > > Subject: RE: AIN, NOBI and composition
> > > >
> > > > Well, I think we need to have clear wording for all the
"alternatives"
> > > > before the working group.
> > > >
> > > > The way I see it:
> > > > AIN Vocabulary flavour: Any assertion not in a vocabulary
> > > > should not be applied (Original chris proposal) AIN Closed
> > > > favour: Any assertion not in an alternative should not be
> > > > applied (revised chris proposal) AIN Removal: Any assertion
> > > > not in alternative means nothing. It may or may not be applied.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Dave
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Ashok Malhotra [mailto:ashok.malhotra@oracle.com]
> > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:29 PM
> > > > > To: Daniel Roth; David Orchard; public-ws-policy@w3.org
> > > > > Subject: RE: AIN, NOBI and composition
> > > > >
> > > > > Dan:
> > > > > I'm sorry, but that's not how I read it.
> > > > >
> > > > > My reading is that you CANNOT apply assertions that are not in
the
> > > > > selected alternative. That, to me feels like negation.
> > > > >
> > > > > I think we shd get behind Monica's explicit wording that
eliminates
> > > > > the fuzz factor.
> > > > >
> > > > > All the best, Ashok
> > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-ws-policy-
> > > > > > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Roth
> > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 4:12 PM
> > > > > > To: David Orchard; public-ws-policy@w3.org
> > > > > > Subject: RE: AIN, NOBI and composition
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is exactly the problem with tying negation semantics to
the
> > > > > > absence of assertion types (AIN).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > IBM's proposal fixes this by simply saying you do what you
> > > > > assert and
> > > > > > nothing else (NOBI).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Daniel Roth
> > > > > >
> > > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > > From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org
[mailto:public-ws-policy-
> > > > > > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of David Orchard
> > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:23 PM
> > > > > > To: public-ws-policy@w3.org
> > > > > > Subject: AIN, NOBI and composition
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I wonder about AIN, NOBI, etc. and composition.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Imagine that WS-I produces an assertion that says a
"RSPAssertion"
> > > > > > means RMAssertion and Security, perhaps exactly one of
> > > > > > messageSecurity|transportsecurity. What's the meaning
> > > > when some of
> > > > > > messageSecurity|the
> > > > > > assertions that are in the composition are missing? For
> > > > example, I
> > > > > > just say RSPAssertion. I don't say RMAssertion, though
> > > > > RMAssertion is
> > > > > > in the vocabulary. If I get an intersection that says
> > > > RSPAssertion
> > > > > > but not RMAssertion, AIN has the implication that you
> > > > > shouldn't apply
> > > > > > RMAssertion yet RSPAssertion does.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We don't say anything about whether an assertion that means
a
> > > > > > behaviour "trumps" the lack of such an assertion.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > With AIN, there's a problem. Without AIN, there's no
> > > > > problem because
> > > > > > there's no conflict.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > Dav3e
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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