CORBA34 — Section: 4.8.1

The corba spec defines a lot of policies. In 4.8.5 client exposed policies are listed. We do have several of them, also policies could be applied at several levels, but some of them can't be applied to each level. To our idea the scope at which policies can be applied should not only be in the possible, but also part of the policy itself. That way application code and the corba orb could check this. Maybe add this to policy typedef unsigned long PolicyScope; const PolicyScope POLICY_SCOPE_OBJECT = 0x01; const PolicyScope POLICY_SCOPE_CURRENT = 0x02; const PolicyScope POLICY_SCOPE_SCOPE = 0x04; const PolicyScope POLICY_SCOPE_POA = 0x08; const PolicyScore POLICY_SCOPE_CLIENT_EXPOSED = 0x10; Then add to the interface Policy readonly attribute PolicyScope policy_scope; This attribute can then be set in the policy with the values above as bitmask. This can be documented clearly in the documentation, orbs can check this, etc.

Deferred

This proposal was generated automatically by request of the Task Force Chair Adam Mitz.