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Abstract
The Framework for ODRL Rule Compliance through Evaluation (FORCE) is designed to assist in ODRL policy development and enhance comprehension of ODRL evaluation outputs.
A vocabulary that is used to elaborate the result of an evaluation of an ODRL Policy, (optionally) ODRL Request and the State of the World. It elaborates not only whether a rule from a policy is active, but also why.
ODRL Evaluator
A system that determines whether the Rules of an ODRL Policy expression have meet their intended action performance.
2. ODRL Compliance Report Model
Compliance Report model
TODO: refer to custom spec
3. ODRL Test Suite
ODRL Test Suite
TODO: write full text
TODO: what makes a test pass or fail in plain terms.
4. ODRL Evaluator
ODRL Evaluator architecture
TODO: write full text
Mention different steps
Elaborate the need for the time thingy
Refer to repo how much we support
Conformance requirements are expressed with a combination of descriptive assertions and RFC 2119 terminology.
The key words “MUST”, “MUST NOT”, “REQUIRED”, “SHALL”, “SHALL NOT”, “SHOULD”, “SHOULD NOT”, “RECOMMENDED”, “MAY”, and “OPTIONAL”
in the normative parts of this document
are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.
However, for readability,
these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in this specification.
All of the text of this specification is normative
except sections explicitly marked as non-normative, examples, and notes. [RFC2119]
Examples in this specification are introduced with the words “for example”
or are set apart from the normative text with class="example", like this:
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