Dear all,

I'm currently in the process of reviewing the use of the MAC Framework in FreeBSD, following meetings at the developer summit about proposed simplifications and enhancements. One of the on-going concerns I have had is that several of the policies we ship are reference implementation policies, rather than reference user policies:

mac_ifoff       - Interface silencing
mac_partition   - Process space partitions
mac_stub        - Stub MAC policy entry points
mac_test        - Invariants testing

While mac_stub and mac_test are both extremely useful for devleopers as shipped, it's not clear to me that mac_ifoff and mac_partition offer significantly similar value, and as they are reference policies rather than production policies, my leaning is to provide them as downloads on the TrustedBSD web site and via p4, but to not ship them with FreeBSD 7.0. So this e-mail is to poll to see if anyone is currently using the mac_ifoff and mac_partition policies in production, and would object on those grounds to shipping them separately from the base OS.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge
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