Our Vision is…

• … to prove that enterprise-ready authorization solutions can be built upon the eXtensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML) standard.
• … to provide a fully integrated open source software suite and an architecture framework, implementing a comprehensive solution for XACML.
• … to have all components like PDPs, PEPs, PAPs, PIPs interoperating together and providing a very comfortable access control solution.
• … to provide a process and tool suite for a natural language oriented definition of access control policies and statements.
• … to publish worthful engineering expirience to the community and build reference architectures.
• … to always live and evolve the appropriate software develepoment method for HERAS^AF.
• … to maintain and succeed an agile and distributed open source project.

Our Mission is …

• … to become the #1 open source XACML Evaluation Engine.
• … to build flexible, customizable and extensible software components for XACML.
• ... to build an XACML-based authorization framework that blends into existing infrastructure with the least possible footprint.
• ... to utilize existing open source frameworks or products wherever it is beneficial.
• … to educate future software engineers in modern and agile software engineering. Providing support and opportunities to do theses in the area of HERAS^AF.
• … to develop software with an outstanding code quality.

We recognize that this target is an ambitious goal. It rather reflects our long-term direction, which points at providing a widely usable, enterprise-ready, easy-to-integrate software framework for central access control management.