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From: kingdon@ai.mit.edu (Jim Kingdon)
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Subject: Re: Mandatory Access Controls in the commercial world
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From:  kingdon@ai.mit.edu (Jim Kingdon)

Thanks for providing some technical details.  But can't the level be
made a special case of the set of categories?  That is, define
categories CLASSIFIED, SECRET, TOP_SECRET, etc, and give people either
{TOP_SECRET, SECRET, CLASSIFIED} or {SECRET, CLASSIFIED} or
{CLASSIFIED}.  Unless I'm missing something, this provides the same
functionality and is simpler.

You might want to post a clarification (or summary of this and other
messages). 

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