Subject: [Geopriv] OMA and policy architectures (common-policy)

From: "Thomson, Martin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 17:59:39 -0500

Hi All,

Disclaimer: I'm not sending this in any official capacity, it's an FYI.

I've been attending OMA LOC group meetings this week in Sydney and the OMA ARC group made a presentation on an initiative relating to policy.  (The ARC group is responsible for defining general architectural direction in OMA.)

In short, there are a number of groups in OMA who are defining policy-related standards.  It was deemed advantageous to provide some overall consistency to reduce the cost (in all senses) of implementing disparate policy mechanisms.
 
The PEEM (Policy Evaluation, Enforcement and Management) work focuses on three aspects of policy:

 - policy definition structure (document or database formats)
 - policy management mechanisms (protocols to update policy)
 - policy checking functions (protocols to enable the delegation of policy checking functions)

At this stage, it's a little unclear as to how far this effort is going to go; whether the output will be as little as some guidance to OMA groups, or if the output will be technical specifications for protocols and document formats.

http://www.openmobilealliance.org/ftp/Public_documents/ARCH/Permanent_documents/OMA-AD-Policy_Evaluation_Enforcement_Management-V1_0_0-20051017-D.zip

The first of these is particularly pertinent to GEOPRIV, since they have created a list of possible inputs that include common-policy.

Cheers,
Martin
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