Policy - capability definition question

Some time ago Daniel provided an overview of device capabilities [1] and a pointer to BONDI definitions [2].

It seems, however, that these definitions may not map directly to the DAP API definitions, especially as the DAP interfaces evolve.

Taking Contacts, as an example, the BONDI definitions include:

pim.contact.read        Read the contacts stored in the terminal
pim.contact.write       Writes contacts to be stored in the terminal



However our current contacts editors draft [3] has find, create, clone, save, remove as methods, as well as more granular access control opportunities on the ContactProperties interface.

It seems that this kind of issue might occur with a number of specifications.

In this case it seems we have capabilities for creation, deletion, and update as well as find (and some possible granularity on find).

If capabilities were marked in the Web IDL itself it would aid in automatically generating, using and testing capabilities - is this an approach worth considering?

It appears we will need API specific definitions of capabilities.

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-device-apis/2010Feb/0142.html

[2] http://bondi.omtp.org/1.1/apis/devcaps.html

[3] http://dev.w3.org/2009/dap/contacts/