Re: P work in new charter

[Geetha Manjunath <geetham@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > > (d) defining mechanisms by which a user can communicate rulesets to the OPES
> > > processor.
> >
> > Such mechanism is needed (one might default to existing ones), but out
> > of scope of the WG.

> > Can you please give me specific pointers to existing mechanisms here? I would like
> to evaluate their sufficiency  for the intended usage.

> For example, use a CLI to load a rules file locally on the machine,
> use FTP to transfer a rules file, you might use HTTP....
>
> -Markus

Oh! I guess these are fine! I was wondering whether there were any protocols along the
lines of WPAD (Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol) for this.

The reason I raised the point about "mechanisms to communicate the rules" was based on
my trials of using IRML in a practical OPES env. Though IRML did talk about rule sets
that included 3 classes of rules - (i)Rules set by OPES administrator, (ii)Rules set by
Content Provider and (iii) Rules set by the user/client  - there were several practical
problems  in effecting the latter two cases.
I guess the question then boils down to  "who are the targetted authors that would use P
language to write rulesets?".
Clearly it is (i) but do we include (ii) and (iii) ?

Thanks and regards
geetha