Issue 555:  Policy Object (sec-rev)
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Nature:  Uncategorized
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Summary: Summary: GIven a Policy object there is no way of telling what PolicyType it is of. Add " readonly attribute PolicyType policy_type; " to the Policy Interface.

Resolution:  resolved, close issue
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Actions taken:
April 24, 1997: received issue
March 26, 1998: closed issue
Discussion: 

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Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 18:29:35 -0400
From: Jishnu Mukerji <jis@fpk.hp.com>
Organization: Hewlett-Packard New Jersey Labs
Subject: A few things to think about
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Following up on some discussions that we have had with the Core RTF
folks two items were identified that need to be passed by the Security
RTF. They are:


4) At present given a Policy object there is no way of telling what
PolicyType it is of, short of attempting to narrow it to a given
PolicyType and succeeding/failing to do so. There is a proposal to add

	 readonly attribute PolicyType policy_type;

to the Policy interface. Any thoughts on that?

BTW, it should be noted that in resolving the issue on the lack of
lifecycle management operations for the Policy object it is proposed to
add a "copy" and a "destroy" operation to the CORBA::Policy interface.

That's all for now.