Fifth IEEE International Workshop on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY'04)
People and Policies: Transforming the Human-Computer Partnership
Yorktown Heights, New York
June 07-June 09
ISBN: 0-7695-2141-X
Policy-driven systems represent a significant change in the human-computer partnership as substantial responsibility is shifted from people to systems. In fact, the shift to policy-driven systems may be understood as a set of specific, distinctive changes in this partnership. This paper describes six such distinctive features of mature policy-driven systems from the human viewpoint and discusses the implications of these for the development of policies and the operation of policy-driven systems.