(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