GNOME Power Management Support [PSARC/2008/021 FastTrack timeout 01/23/2008]

[David Chieu]

Gary Winiger wrote:

>>Just sent the wrong link of contract, in fact, the contract about 
>>libpolkit is
>>http://sac.eng/Archives/CaseLog/arc/LSARC/2007/702/contracts/contract-hal.txt
>>    
>>
>
>	And I read the wrong contract.  For not being clear and the case
>	materials, I read the cpu-freq-GPM contract.
>	IMO, it has the same flaws in specification relative to
>	polkit, auth and profile names.  I'm happy for the HAL/polkit
>	"privileges" to be Volatile.  I'm not happy to have auths
>	and their containing profiles to be Volatile.
>	Sorry about my getting the wrong contract.
>
>	What's missing from this whole thing, I believe belongs as
>	a case dependency of lsarc/2007/702 -- which I'll read when
>	I get back from Holiday -- is the explicit relationship
>	between polkit "privileges" and Solaris RBAC.
>
>Gary..
>  
>
For the security interface taxonomy, it sounds like we need "Private" 
for auths/profiles. If so, what flavor of Private? Since this runs 
multiple consolidations (JDS & ON), "Contracted Project Private" seems 
be a suitable interface classification.
BTW, thanks for taking your time over the U.S. holiday to review our case.

-- David Chieu