Re: decentralized use cases

On 7/12/12 8:15 AM, Henry Story wrote:
> On 12 Jul 2012, at 10:33, <Erik.Wilde@emc.com> <Erik.Wilde@emc.com> wrote:
>
>> the concrete reason i am asking is that we are very interested in using
>> linked data as a platform, but we also cannot go the route of a shared
>> database model. we must have control over what a linked data platform
>> exposes and what it does not expose, and we must have control over who can
>> add what and when to a linked data platform. these are the questions we
>> need to solve, and i am still trying to figure out how to best solve those
>> questions in the context of this WG.
> In my view the best way to do that is to use WebID for authentication
> ( see video at http://webid.info/ and the spec at http://webid.info/spec )
> and access control ontologies as for example demonstrated in the README
> on https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/read-write-web/
>
> An example of an ACL rule written in Turtle is
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/read-write-web/file/cff4d0159b26/test_www/.meta.n3.off
>
> The advantage of WebID is it ties right into LinkedData and you can use it to
> build webs of trust. I am working on building much more interesting demonstrations.
>
> Henry
>
> Social Web Architect
> http://bblfish.net/
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Apropos Henry's comments above, here are some posts about this subject 
matter; each post includes links to live real-world examples:

1. http://bit.ly/QUfkJ6 -- How Linked Data & WebID Deliver Controlled 
Access to Resources in Google Drive, SkyDrive, DropBox, Box.Net, and 
Amazon S3 (each of these services is REST based

2.  http://bit.ly/MVc15h -- Using Social Relationship Semantics & WebID 
to Drive Resource Access Control .

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