From: The IESG To: IETF-Announce Message-Id: Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:53:55 -0400 Cc: geopriv chair , Internet Architecture Board , RFC Editor Subject: Protocol Action: 'Common Policy: A Document Format for Expressing Privacy Preferences' to Proposed Standard The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Common Policy: A Document Format for Expressing Privacy Preferences ' as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Geographic Location/Privacy Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Cullen Jennings and Jon Peterson. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-geopriv-common-policy-11.txt Technical Summary This document define a framework for authorization policies controlling access to application specific data, and a specific usage of this framework for controlling access to location information. The framework is specified using XML Schema in which common policy rules are expressed. Work Group Summary This document represent the consensus of the GEOPRIV working group, in close collaboration with the SIMPLE working group and the 3GPP, 3GPP2, and OMA standards organizations. Protocol Quality The MIME registration for application/auth-policy+xml was reviewed by the ietf-types list on April 7, 2006, and a few issues were raised and resolved. Scott Brim provided the GEN-ART review.