Specifications for managing labels on sockets

[Trish Lynch]

On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, George W. Dinolt wrote:

> Robert:
>
> As you mentioned, there are the TSIX labels now "taken over" by Sun. Sun
> calls them "tsol" labels. They are partially defined by a "label
> encodings" file whose format was originally specified by Mitre as part
> of the "Compartmented Mode Workstation" (CMW) development (198?). Those
> labels are normally added at the "session" level. For networking, they
> are represented as a new option in both tcp and udp protocols. (Many
> complications omitted) They are also normally kept for all subjects and
> objects in some internal format. The encodings file is used to define
> the organization of the labels and how they should appear to users.
>
> Sun uses the tsol labels to define more than just the label hierarchy.
> The tsol labels include process and user privileges and other security
> related information.
>

so I guess that TSIG has dissolved and Sun took over the spec for TSIX,
and everyone else (who was part of TSIG) started diverging from the spec?

So pretty much everyone is stuck at the "how do we implement this, since
there are 200,000 different ways out there now" stage again.

Gods, I love this industry :)

-Trish

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