Problems related to the policy management infrastructure

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1. Distribution of policy
	a. No way to easily distribute custom policy
2. Policy module format 
	a. All of the disadvantages of a binary format with none of the
	advantages.
3. Many policy file formats 
	a. Normal policy files (*.te *.if, *.fc)
	b. Object manager files (dbus_contexts, x_contexts)
	c. Misc context files (default_contexts, initrc_context,
	removable_context, etc)
	d. Other management files (setrans.conf, seusers, etc)
4. Policy store
	a. Both managed and unmanaged files are in /etc/selinux
5. Build process
	a. Fragile and brittle
	b. Difficult to add new features
6. Resource usage
	a. Tools are slow and/or require a lot of memory

-- 
James Carter <jwcart2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
National Security Agency


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