Minutes: HRAC Submitters conference call October 15, 1998

[Konstantin Beznosov <beznosov@baptisthealth.net>]

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Konstantin
Minutes of the HRAC RFP response submitters team conference call

Date: October, 15 1998
Time: 10:00AM --11:40 PM Eastern time
Compiled by Konstantin Beznosov

Participants:
Carol Burt -- 2AB,
David Chizmadia -- NSA, 
John Barkley  -- NIST, 
V. Juggy Jagannathan -- CareFlow|Net,
Konstantin Beznosov -- BHSSF,
Bob Blakley -- IBM

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Decisions made:

Below is the summary of what has been decided the way I understood it.
Those who think that something essential is missing from the minutes
or something is presented here inaccurately, please send to the list
or directly to me your comments/feedback/corrections and I'll
incorporate them in the minutes text.

1. David will work on the section 1.4 (Terminology).

2. Bob will send to Carol a couple of additional sentences to the
section 2.1.

3. Konstantin will send description of the problem the HRAC service is
intended to solve with possibly a picture highlighting the proposed
design.

4. Section 2.2 will be taken out of the submission.

5. Section 2.3 will be renamed to "Outstanding Issues" and Konstantin
will send a sentence that introduces the issues in the section.

6. Additional issue about combinator will be put in section 2.3. (Who
does it?)

7. Add a read-only attribute in the PolicyEvaluator to provide
a reference to PolicyEvaluatorAdmin.

8. Add a read-only attribute in the PolicyLocator to provide
a reference to PolicyLocatorAdmin.

9. Change all type names defined via "typedef sequence<X>..." as
XList.

10. Change names of parameters in the defined operations to the form
<English_word_low_case>[_<English_word_low_case>]*

11. Rename operation PolicyEvaluatorAdmin::apply_policy to
PolicyEvaluatorAdmin::replace_policy

12. Add operation void PolicyEvaluatorAdmin::add_policy(in PolicyName
policy_name, in ResourceName resource_name)

13. Add operation PolicyEvaluatorList
PolicyEvaluatorAdmin::list_policy_evaluators()

14. Rename operation PolicyEvaluator::apply_evaluator to
PolicyEvaluator::add_evaluators with replacing parameter of type
PolicyEvaluator with a parameter of type PolicyEvaluatorList

15. Add operation void PolicyEvaluatorAdmin::replace_evaluators(in
PolicyEvaluatorList, in ResourceName)

16. Rename operation PolicyEvaluatorAdmin::set_default_evaluator to
PolicyEvaluatorAdmin::set_default_evaluators with replacing parameter of type
PolicyEvaluator with a parameter of type PolicyEvaluatorList

17. Give a presentation on the initial submission on the afternoon of
Tuesday, November 10, with the following outline of the presentation:

  A. Introduction into the presentation (Bob)
  B. Very brief overview of security terminology and concepts (Bob)
  C. CORBA security model (Bob)
     1. CORBA security model in general
     2. CORBA access control model specifically
     3. What is not provided by CORBA security in respect to the
     problem domain of HRAC
     4. An example scenario highlighting #3 specifically for
     healthcare
  D. Proposed design description (Carol)
     1. Object model
     2. Description of interfaces
     3. Description of outstanding issues
     4. Work plan for the revised submission
  E. Healthcare specific use case scenario using COAS (Konstantin)
  F. Q&A (submission team)

18. All action items for the submission team are due Thursday, October
15, 5:00PM central time to be sent to Carol.

19. Next conference call will be on Thursday, October 22, at 10:00AM
Eastern time. Call information was provided by Bob in the one of the
recent messages to the mail list.
   
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