TrustedBSD Extensions Project (fwd)

[Bengt Richter]

At 21:54 2000-04-20 +0400 Ilmar S. Habibulin wrote:
[...]
>PS. What about attribute names standartization?

	That is an interesting question, which could be extended
to ask, "Should there be a canonical, machine readable, platform
independent representation of security [meta]data?"

	YAML? (Yet another *ML) called SML or SMDML? Or even a FMDML
(File Meta Data Markup Language)?
	Defining an XML DTD for every new clump of data seems
to be the rage these days, but perhaps not without some good
reasons (standards, platform independence).

	This also touches on the area of export/import. If FMDML
or SMDML existed, perhaps the problems of secure data interchange
in heterogeous networks would have an easier evolution. Obviously
file metadata standards implicitly exist already at least to the
extent necessary to implement ftp etc., but perhaps a canonical
extensible XML representation would be useful. Perhaps a canonical
little-endian binary packing could be indicated too, with symbol-bit
mappings derived from the DTD and definitions. (I prefer little-endian
as a standard for the same reason I prefer the metric system --
it's more rational :)
	A good representation tends also to help make communication
in discussions more precise and concise.

My .02USD for today ;-)
Regards,
Bengt Richter


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