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RE: ACL Draft

From: Paul Leach <paulle@microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 18:24:35 -0700
Message-ID: <771E1FEEEE41D111A95900805FFE658712AD5D@RED-MSG-51.dns.microsoft.com>
To: "'Larry Masinter'" <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org 


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> From: 	Larry Masinter[SMTP:masinter@parc.xerox.com]
> Sent: 	Thursday, October 23, 1997 12:55 AM
> 
<snip>

> Classical protection model isn't good enough, but probably extending
> it to at least have predicates for source host & IP address
> would satisfy current web users.
> 
The classical model does not need to be extended to add the source host & IP
address. The classical model does not say what "principals" are -- they can
perfectly well be a combination of a user name and an IP address.

Paul
Received on Thursday, 23 October 1997 21:24:54 GMT

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