- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 08:01:25 -0400
- To: public-lod@w3.org
On 5/5/11 6:06 AM, Sebastian Schaffert wrote: >> > + How is authentication and authorisation handled (like WebID [5] and WAC [6])? > Since we are an applied research centre, we want to be standards-based as far as possible. There are actually two separate issues you are suggesting here. Authentication and authorisation. The authentication we are working on will be based on OAuth2, and we already have an experimental implementation for that. For authorisation we are planning to use access control lists in some form, but this is not really thought through yet- The proposal in [6] looks promising for access control lists. > > > Put differently, the question above is about this: are you aware of the WebID protocol, and its fidelity re. RESTful interaction with Data Objects? WebID provides a fine grained solution for ACL constrained interaction with Data Objects via their URIs. Links: 1. http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID - WebID Wiki 2. http://bblfish.net/tmp/2011/04/26/ -- WebID Protocol & Browsers Paper for upcoming W3C workshop on Identity in the Browser -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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