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RE: status of OWL amidst other standards

  • To: "adasal" <adam.saltiel@g...>, <xml-dev@l...>
  • Subject: RE: status of OWL amidst other standards
  • From: "Chiusano Joseph" <chiusano_joseph@b...>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 09:39:22 -0500
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  • Thread-topic: status of OWL amidst other standards

xacml owl
For the relationship between XML, RDF, and OWL, I recommend you review some of the OWL recommendations[1]. For example, the "OWL Web Ontology Language Overview[2]" provides a pretty nice description of the relationships.
 
Regarding your access control example: I am certain that this can be handled by XACML (as you describe the problem in a high-level sense). The buildings and rooms would be considered XACML resources, and XACML policies with rules such as "Person X may gain access to building Y only on date Z" that are evaluated based on a decision request.
 
Regarding XACML and semantic technologies such as OWL: Enhancing XACML with semantic technologies would be a great thing IMO, as it would enable (among other things) XACML rules to be expressed more richly. I am not aware of any current efforts for this within the OASIS XACML TC, but you may wish to send a comment to that TC inquiring about this - see [3].
 
Joe
 
[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/WebOnt/
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
[3] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=xacml
 
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From: adasal [mailto:adam.saltiel@g...]
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 9:14 AM
To: xml-dev@l...
Subject: status of OWL amidst other standards

Does anyone have thoughts about the following?
This example below XACML, but it *is* just an example.
I am interested in the relationship between xml -> rdf -> owl
I think this can be divided into two concerns from my point of view but I will just mention the first, that of the position of OWL in the market.
This concerns the status of owl amidst all the competing xmls.
An example would be the following:-
ucml have created a framework demo by Harry Chin called COBRA which is a context aware ontology broker. It allows a mobile client to hold an owl ontology that includes a permissions profile and a server broker to reason that the permisions allow certain types of data to be shared. For instance, suppose I request permision to enter a room in a certain building, I just request by room. The broker does two things. It reasons that the room resides in a particular building and, looking at my profile, it finds I do not have permision for the room, but I do for the building (which at least will get me to the front desk!)
So that is what it return to me. Introducing time makes this more interesting, since I may gain permision to that room only on a certain date, this is returned.
But I have a colleague who, intreaguingly, has told me that he worked on the first implementation of an XACML server. I don't know enough to doubt this, that is whether XACML would cover the same ground, but he tells me this is what XACML does.
There must be many other examples. Thoughts anyone?

Adam

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