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Friday, December 7, 2007

W3C Policy Language Interest Group (PLING): Discussion Topics …

The W3C Policy Language Interest Group is now ready to start discussions on policy related topics. Of course, if you are interested in this topic, feel free to join the public mailing list.

The PLING's team contacts (Thomas and Rigo), Renato and I have received a few (off-line) emails asking for more information about PLING's next steps and discussion topics.

Given the PLING Charter, we suggest to start discussing these two key topics:

1) Use-cases involving the usage of policies in various scenarios, pros and cons of adopted policy frameworks, pain points, issues and recommendations

2) Creating a list of known policy languages & frameworks that are currently used in the industry, academy, etc. and/or are of relevance to the audience

Topic 1 aims at sharing practical experiences in using policies in a variety of contexts, along with any issue and requirements. The goal is to create awareness of important (and/or common) use-cases, limitations and needs.
Please notice this is NOT a discussion about specific policy language features.

Topic 2 aims at creating a list that "maps" the current "policy language" space, by clearly identifying policy languages and frameworks that the audience uses and/or believe are of some relevance.

Of course these two topics are not independent: discussions and contributions are really welcome on both themes.

The PLING team is also exploring the usage of a W3C Wiki site to record various discussions and contributions. More information on this aspect will follow.

We would also like to encourage the members of this mailing list to publicly introduce themselves by sharing their affiliation, interests, what they would like to get from this IG and/or how they would like to contribute (thanks to the ones that have already done it!) .

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