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hrac IDL module name



Sorry for being a word worm, but I think a more appropriate name for HRAC IDL
module  would be Authorization (or DfResourceAccessDecision for the sake of
keeping it short) instead of DfResourceAccessControl. 

According to how I understand the meaning of access control and authorization,
access control consists of two parts: making decisions (this part is called
authorization) and enforcing them. Since HRAC by its intent does not enforce
anything, it would be better if we rename the module name to avoid misleading
of innocent readers.

The name of the facility should be also renamed, but it is going to cause much
more noise. so, I'm not suggesting to change the spec name casually at this
point.

Konstantin
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