Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language

EPAL redirects here. EPAL may also refer to the European Pallet Association; cf. EUR-pallet.

Enterprise Privacy Authorization Language (EPAL) is a formal language for writing enterprise privacy policies to govern data handling practices in IT systems according to fine-grained positive and negative authorization rights. It has been submitted by IBM to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to be considered for recommendation.

See also

• XACML - eXtensible Access Control Markup Language, a standard by OASIS.

References

• EPAL 1.2 submission to the W3C 10 Nov 2003
• Technology Report on EPAL from OASIS
• A Comparison of Two Privacy Policy Languages:EPAL and XACML by Anne Anderson, Sun Microsystem Laboratories