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About the Group
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General information about the group, its members and contact information.
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Publications
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Relevant publications by members of the group.
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Projects
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Information about current and past projects being carried out by the group.
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Policy Resources
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Links to policy related sites, conferences and other resources.
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Ponder: A Policy Language for Distributed Systems Management
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Ponder is a language for specifying management and security policies for distributed
systems. It has been developed as part of ongoing research being carried out by the group
into the use of policy in distributed systems management.
The complete specification of the Ponder Langauge can be found
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As part of the Ponder development effort, a complete toolkit has been developed to support
the users of the language. Available components include:
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Ponder Compiler (v2.1)
For version 2.3 of the Ponder Grammar
A Compiler framework for the Ponder policy specification language. It supports
the main features of the Ponder grammar v2.3. It consists of a Syntax Analyser,
a two-pass Semantic Analyser, and the default Java Code Generator for Obligation and
Refrain Policies, and XML code generator.
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Ponder Policy Editor (v1.0.1)
A customisable text editor for the Ponder language, written in Java. It has all
the basic features of a text editor, and includes features that make text editing
Ponder Policies easy.
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Ponder Management Toolkit (v1.0)
A Management Toolkit Framework, designed to allow for the addition of tools to be
managed from a central management console.
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The following documentation provides an overview of the toolkit, the source code and
how to go about implementing enforcement agents.
We also provide a summary of the toolkit here
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Questions?
If you have any questions regarding the Ponder toolkit please contact the Ponder Implementation Group
by emailing ponder@doc.ic.ac.uk
Ponder Toolkit Withdrawn
Please note that we no longer provide downloads of the Ponder Toolkit since we are unable to support it.
Any e-mail to the above address to request a copy of the software is likely to go unanswered.
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Restricted Area
This area contains links to documents that are for members of the DSE Policy group only.
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