Subject: AW: [Simple] Group interest in draft-ietf-simple-common-policy-caps anddraft-ietf-simple-pres-policy-caps?

From: "Tschofenig, Hannes" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 08:59:49 +0200

Hi Jonathan, 

your mail got lost in my inbox. Sorry for the late response. 

I think that these documents are important since they address the extensibility aspect of the authorization policy work. 
The drafts outline a simple approach. 

Ciao
Hannes

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Jonathan Rosenberg [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 8. Juni 2006 22:51
> An: Simple WG
> Betreff: [Simple] Group interest in 
> draft-ietf-simple-common-policy-caps 
> anddraft-ietf-simple-pres-policy-caps?
> 
> These drafts expired some time ago. You can still retrieve 
> them from my 
> site:
> 
> http://www.jdrosen.net/papers/draft-ietf-simple-common-policy-
> caps-00.txt
> http://www.jdrosen.net/papers/draft-ietf-simple-pres-policy-ca
ps-00.txt
> 
> These drafts define an xcap usage and corresponding schemas for 
> declaring capabilities for authorization policies. A client 
> application 
> would fetch these at startup, and based on them, know what kind of 
> authorization policies a user can specify. For example, if a service 
> provider defines new permissions, like 'limited', 'full', and 
> 'unfettered', the capabilities document would indicate to the client 
> that these are presence, and the client could place them into a 
> presence-rules document it uploads to the server.
> 
> These drafts are only really needed if we are worried about 
> deployments 
> where people implement subsets or extensions to 
> presence-rules, and the 
> clients don't otherwise worry about them.
> 
> The group has agreed in the past that these drafts were 
> important and we 
> agreed to adopt them as WG items. However, there hasn't been 
> a  lot of 
> interest recently, and it will take effort for me to go and 
> revive them 
> and get them finished up.
> 
> So, I'd like to poll for interest - please let me know if you think 
> these are important and would like to move forward with them, and 
> whether you plan on implementing or using these (or already are).
> 
> Thanks,
> Jonathan R.
> -- 
> Jonathan D. Rosenberg, Ph.D.                   600 Lanidex Plaza
> Cisco Fellow                                   Parsippany, NJ 
> 07054-2711
> Cisco Systems
> [email-masked]                              FAX:   (973) 952-5050
> http://www.jdrosen.net                         PHONE: (973) 952-5000
> http://www.cisco.com
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Simple mailing list
> [email-masked]
> https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/simple
> 

_______________________________________________
Simple mailing list
[email-masked]
https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/simple