Status

Current Version: 20060307

	See download for download

	information. Details of this release are part of the changelog.

	This release focused on improving the consistency of interface names

	in an effort to stabilize the Reference Policy interfaces.

	Currently both strict and targeted policies can

	be built.  MLS policies can be built, but the policy is still undergoing

	testing on running systems.

Status and Tasks

	Reference Policy Status

	Task/ComponentStatusDescription

		Policy Structure

		Complete

		The policy is converted over to new Reference Policy structure

		TE Policy

		Conversion Ongoing

		Conversion of old policy to Reference Policy modules is ongoing

		Loadable Policy Modules

		Major improvements

		Infrastructure is in place to support both source policy and

			loadable policy modules.  Makefile support completed.

		Documentation Infrastructure

		Interfaces, templates, Booleans, and tunables complete

		Tools to create webpages from the module interface and 

			template documentation is complete. Global Booleans and

			tunables are supported. Booleans and tunables local to

			policies are planned.

		Policy Documentation

		Ongoing

		Most modules are documented.

		Unused Modules

		Complete

		Modules can be disabled by using modules.conf.

		MLS Infrastructure

		Minor improvements

		MLS infrastructure added to support easy conversion between

			MLS and non-MLS policy.  Policy is compilable, but

			only lightly tested.

		MCS Support

		Minor improvements

		MLS infrastructure has been extended to support MCS

			categories in users and all contexts.  MCS constraints

			have been added.  Policy has been tested in the

			targeted-mcs policy configuration.

		Network Infrastructure

		Minor improvements

		All network ports, nodes, and interfaces moved to

			corenetwork module, interfaces generated automatically.

			Plan to add more infrastructure for configuration of

			ports, nodes, and interfaces.

		User domains and roles

		Minor improvements

		Some infrastructure added to support per-user domain policy,

			e.g., to create types and policy for ssh,

			for each user.  Plan to add infrastructure to easily

			configure userdomains and roles.

		Labeling

		Minor improvements

		All labeling moved to modules, consistent with Reference

			Policy structure. Levels can be added to the labels

			without changes to the policy.

		Tunables

		Minor improvements

		Tunables are documented and included in the webpage policy

			documentation.

		Users

		Unchanged

		Assignment of users to roles.

		Constraints

		Unchanged

		Plan to split up into relevant modules when loadable modules

			support this.  There are ordering problems with source

			policies.

		Flask

		Unchanged

		Headers for the policy, describing object classes, and

			their permissions.  No planned changes.

Roadmap

      Reference Policy Roadmap

      Version

      Date

      Description

      0.1

      June 2005

      Initial public release, basic policy restructuring, some infrastructure, few modules, and minimal documentation.

      0.2

      July 2005

      Restructuring complete, additional modules, and improved infrastructure.

      0.3

      August 2005

      Additional modules, documentation, and base module configuration support.

      0.4

      September 2005

      Additional modules, documentation, and tested loadable module support.

      0.5

      October 2005

      Additional modules, documentation, targeted policy, and tested MLS support

      0.6

      December 2005

      Additional modules, documentation, and module variations

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Policy Conversion

This phase of reference policy development involves the conversion of policies

from the example policy.  Please use the current NSA example policy

in 

NSA SourceForge CVS.

For those who wish to contribute, here is a listing of modules which need to be

converted:

      Policy Module Status

      Module Name

      Previous Policy Files

      Assigned To

      gnome

      gnome.te gnome.fc gnome_macros.te gnome_vfs.te gnome_vfs.fc gnome_vfs_macros.te gnome-pty-helper.te gnome-pty-helper.fc gph_macros.te bonobo.te bonobo.fc bonobo_macros.te gconf.te gconf.fc gconf_macros.te orbit.te orbit.fc orbit_macros.te

      Tresys

Testing Status

Reference policy is used as the basis of all of the Fedora Core 5 policies.