Does DACS stand for Discretionary Access Control?
No. It is neither a discretionary access control system nor a mandatory access control system. It might be described as a combination of role-based access control and context-based access control, with programmable run-time rule evaluation. • What is a DACS federation? What are jurisdictions? A DACS federation consists of one or more jurisdictions, each of which authenticates its users, provides web services, or both. Jurisdictions coordinate information sharing through light-weight business practices implemented as a requirement of membership in a DACS federation. Each jurisdiction is assigned a unique name within a federation, by convention a capitalized, short abbreviation (e.g., EARTH or VULCAN). Each authenticated user is identified by a DACS username consisting of the name of the authenticating jurisdiction and a username within that jurisdiction (e.g., EARTH:kirk or VULCAN:spock). An authenticated user assumes a federation-wide DACS identity; any jurisdiction can understand cred
