>>>>> "Klaas" == Klaas Wierenga <[email protected]> writes:

    Klaas> On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:59 PM, Sam Hartman 
<[email protected]> wrote:

Sam,

    Klaas> The way I look at it is that you talk about two different
    Klaas> types of authorisations, one where the AAA-server says "for
    Klaas> the following x seconds my vouch for the fact that Sam has
    Klaas> successfully authenticated and is associated with the
    Klaas> following attributes" and the other where the resource owner
    Klaas> decides what should happen once that assertion is not valid
    Klaas> anymore. I don't believe it is the business of the AAA-server
    Klaas> to say what the resource owner must do. If someone has
    Klaas> configured my firewalls perfectly and now leaves for another
    Klaas> company, I do want to make sure he can not mess with my
    Klaas> configs anymore, but I definitely don;t want to have to redo
    Klaas> all my configuration. At the same time, I can also imagine
    Klaas> cases where you do want to roll back actions someone
    Klaas> undertook. So all in all, this is application logic that I
    Klaas> don't think we should try to specify. And indeed, for one
    Klaas> particular application, like network access, it may make
    Klaas> perfect sense to specify the behaviour explicitly.

+1
This is really well stated.
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