Thursday, October 15, 2009

Re: [Geopriv] [Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-barnes-geopriv-policy-uri-00]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com> wrote:


> I don't really think it's reasonable to assume that a LIS will use a
> default-deny policy, if for no other reason than that that policy would
> require any host that wants to use a location reference to go to the
> additional step of installing policy.  In the current proposal, the host
> only has to do policy if he cares whether the policy is anything other than
> "open until stated expiration".
>

I'm not sure that this is required; it seems entirely possible to instead
give a pointer to a well-known URI that has the policy "open until
stated expiration". You don't need to create new URIs which duplicate
that policy, do you?

regards,

Ted
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