I am proud to announce the creation of the W3C Policy Languages Interest Group (PLING). Roberto Iannella (Research Scientist, NICTA, Australia) and I (Marco Casassa Mont, Senior Researcher, HP Labs, UK) are going to be the co-Chairs. Thomas Roessler and Rigo Wenning (W3C) are the initial Team Contacts:
“The Policy Languages Interest Group, part of the Privacy Activity, is a forum for W3C Members and non-Members to discuss interoperability questions that arise when different policy languages are used in integrated use cases, along with related requirements and needs”.
I would like to encourage people that have interests in the area of policy languages, interoperability, privacy, etc. to engage and share their experience, requirements, use cases and open issues. A PLING Mailing list is available.
The PLING Charter provides information about PLING mission, scope, deliverables, participation, communication and obligations. The proceedings of this Interest Group (mailing list archives, minutes, etc.) are going to be publicly visible.
The mission of this interest group is the following:
“The Policy Languages Interest Group is a forum for W3C Members and the public to discuss interoperability issues - along with related requirements and needs - that arise when using a variety of policy languages where there is a need to compute results across these multiple languages. The Interest Group follows up on the October 2006 W3C Privacy Workshop, and addresses areas of work identified as a key common interest of participants. An important function of the Interest Group is information sharing within and between application communities. …”
The scope of PLING is:
“The Policy Languages Interest Group is designed as a forum to support researchers, developers, solution providers, and users of policy languages such as XACML (eXtensible Access Control Markup Language), the IETF's Common Policy framework and related work, and P3P (W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences Project). It provides a forum to enable broader collaboration, through use of email discussion, scheduled IRC topic chats, Wikis, and Weblog tools.
The group will primarily focus on policy languages that are already specified and broadly address the privacy, access control, and obligation management areas; it is not expected to engage in the design of new policy or rule languages. The Interest Group will work towards identifying obstacles to a joint deployment of such languages, and suggest requirements and technological enablers that may help overcome such obstacles.”
More information will follow.
--- NOTE: my original HP blog can be found here ---
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