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• unique identification for each policy the Governance meta-model describing term representations, functions, and effects of a policy description (model)
• one or more discovery mechanisms that enable searching for policies that best meet the search criteria specified by the service participant; where the discovery mechanism will have access to the individual policy descriptions through some repository mechanism;
• services enabling access, examination, and use of the policies.
• notifications to inform participants of significant governance events, such as changes in policies, rules, or regulations;
• comprehensive, accessible, Governance Model;
• services to access implementations of the Governance Processes
• Rules and regulation models are accessible from the Governance model; they all have meta-models describing their terms, functions, effects; they all have discovery and search mechanisms accessible through some repository
• Utilize platform monitoring and notification capabiities to monitor, report, and make accessible metrics related to compliance
• expression of assertion and commitment policy constraints;
• expression of positive and negative policy constraints;
• expression of permission and obligation policy constraints;
• nesting of policy constraints allowing for abstractions and refinements of a policy constraint;
• definition of alternative policy constraints to allow for the selection of compatible policy constraints for a consumer and provider;
• composition of policies to combine one or more policies.
• decision procedures which must be able to measure and render decisions on constraints;
• enforcement of decisions;
• measurement and notification of obligation constraints;
• auditability of decisions, enforcement, and obligation measurements;
• administration of policy and contract language artifacts;
• storage of policies and contracts;
• distribution of policies/contracts;
• conflict resolution or elevation of conflicts in policy rules;
• delegation of policy authority to agents acting on behalf of a client;
• decision procedures capable of incorporating roles and/or attributes for rendered decisions.