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- Submitted-by: nick@usenix.org (Nicholas M. Stoughton)
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- USENIX Standards Report Editor
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- Nicholas M. Stoughton <nick@usenix.org>, Report Editor
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- POSIX.22: POSIX Security Framework
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- David Rogers <drogers@datlog.co.uk> reports on the April
- 19-23, 1993 meeting in Irvine, Ca.:
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- At the January meeting the Portable Applications Standards
- Committee (PASC) approved the Project Authorization Request
- (PAR) for POSIX.22 to produce ``A Guide to the POSIX Open
- Systems Environment - A Security Framework''
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- This work has been assigned as a subgroup of POSIX.6
- Security Working Group.
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- The objective is to complete the work started by the
- Distributed Security Study group and define a framework for
- security within POSIX. This is intended to bring together
- the concepts of security as system service enhancements, as
- currently addressed by POSIX.6, and as security services in
- a distributed environment in a single description of
- security.
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- The work will produce a document that it is planned will
- eventually be included in a future version of POSIX.0. It is
- also intended to provide POSIX.6 with an aid to identifying
- and planning future work.
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- The April meeting discussed the general concepts of the
- framework in terms of the concepts of security domains as
- outlined in the White Paper released by the Distributed
- Security Study Group last year.
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- The July meeting will be considering the representation of
- security within the POSIX.0 model, and a joint meeting with
- POSIX.0 has been arranged to facilitate this. In addition, a
- proposal on a method for assessing the impact of security on
- existing APIs will be discussed.
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- Volume-Number: Volume 31, Number 92
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