Subject: [plasma] Correct XACML attribute category for "data"

From: Ed Simon <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 13:46:40 +0000

In the PLASMA Trust Processing specification, both the following "data" XACML attribute categories are used (for the same purpose, I believe):

<Attributes Category="urn:ietf:plasma:attribute-category:data">

<Attributes Category="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:data">

In the latest XACML specification [1], there is no "urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:3.0:attribute-category:data" category (and I do not recall there ever has been), hence I believe it is necessary that PLASMA use "urn:ietf:plasma:attribute-category:data" where it is using the (non-existent) OASIS-namespaced one.

[1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/xacml/3.0/xacml-3.0-core-spec-cos01-en.html#_Toc325047260

Ed