Re: [decade] WG Action: Conclusion of Decoupled Application Data Enroute (decade)

["Y. Richard Yang" <[e-mail]>]

On Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Martin Stiemerling wrote:

>
>>       8.3 Distributed Resource Sharing Specification
>>
>>
>>
>>     REQUIREMENT(S):  A Provider MUST be able to indicate to its DECADE-
>>         compatible server, without itself contacting the server, resource
>>         control policies for a Consumer.  The DECADE-compatible server
>>         MUST be able to authenticate the resource control policies.
>>
>
> How can the provider indicate its policies to a DECADE server w/o
> contacting the server? This is completely impossible!


This is possible! A provider can indicate the policies in a token. Hence,
the consumer contacts the server and the provider does not!


>
> Probably you can see from where I coming, by comparing the text in the
> RATIONAL with the REQUIREMENT(S) text. While the rational gives a hint to
> what is expected by this requirement, the requirement itself is not useful
> at all.
>


> And, this requirement does still not say how this is done.


I gave one example how abve. There can be other smart approaches that I may
not foresee. The documents specify what but now how.


> Is this done via the SDT or DRP or something else?
>
> Either way can work. Depend on the design.


> This is an excellent example about what is wrong with the requirements
> draft,


I look it diferrently. This is an excellent example of giving requirements,
but not limiting the design space!

Richard


> why it has been pushed back to the WG, and why this is one piece of the
> puzzle why the DECADE was closed.
>
>   Martin
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