GACI item list - to give some items for discussion

From: David Wagner (dawat_private)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 18:14:40 PDT

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    richard offer wrote:
>applications must be able to determine if a given action is acceptable under a
>given policy without performing it.

Why?  Can you give an example?

I've thought mostly about transparent protection of legacy applications,
so maybe I'm overlooking something obvious.  Can you elaborate?

>Loading the policies into X is a trivial matter of programming, coming up with
>APIs that can scale to the all the possible policies isn't.

Yup, good API's are the $64,000 question.

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