10.9 Enforce Policy Decision and Produce Authorised Release

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The Enforce Policy Decision and Produce Authorised Release pattern allows a Logical Node to apply a policy decision before completing a protected action.

A policy-enforcing Logical Node receives or obtains a policy decision and any associated obligations. It then allows, denies, filters, redacts, masks, transforms, aggregates, packages, routes, forwards, releases, or blocks the protected information according to that decision and those obligations.

The interaction belongs primarily to the Logical Policy and Release Plane. It also connects to the Logical Data Plane when the protected action concerns domain information, and to the Logical Audit and Provenance Plane when the architecture records the decision, enforcement action, release product, obligations, lineage, and Evidence.

Table 10-8: Enforce Policy Decision and Produce Authorised Release logical interaction pattern

Element	Logical treatment
Primary Runtime Plane	Logical Policy and Release Plane
Related Runtime Planes	Logical Data Plane and Logical Audit and Provenance Plane
Producing Logical Node Role	Policy Enforcement Node, Release Control Node, Metadata / Aggregate View Builder, Release Gateway, or Data Producer
Consuming Logical Node Role	Authorised Recipient, Oversight Node, Audit Node, Provenance Node, or Evidence Node
Primary information	Policy decision response, obligation record, release product, redacted view, masked view, aggregate view, metadata view, or denial record
Supporting information	Information subject, decision identifier, policy baseline, obligations, recipient, purpose, jurisdiction, sovereignty domain, residency domain, lineage reference, content hash, signature reference, and timestamp
Traceability expectation	Enforcement traces to the policy decision, protected action, enforcing Logical Node, information subject, recipient, purpose, policy context, obligations, and release product.
Evidence expectation	Enforcement and release records support review of authorised release, denial, redaction, aggregation, masking, transformation, routing, obligation handling, and release Evidence.

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