Marriage made in heaven or pistols at dawn?

LDP WG, meet ODRL. ODRL, meet the LDP WG...

If you are familiar with the LDP WG's initial work on Access Control 
[1], please take a look at ODRL [2] and vice versa. They are not the 
same by any means. The use cases, communities of interest and 
implementation expectations are all different.

BUT... both groups are essentially talking about access control one way 
or another. Both communities are asking for a new WG to take this 
forward. So my question is pretty basic: could you work together? Would 
the tensions between the two communities be such that a combined 
solution would be a dog's dinner (i.e. very bad) or could it be that the 
combined force of the two communities means there's a greater chance of 
success for both?

We're having to prioritise work very carefully and so more than ever, we 
need to show significant W3C member support before we can launch new WGs 
so I'm looking to expand the pool of member interest as much as 
possible. That said, if a combined approach is a really bad idea then, 
well, it's a really bad idea and we shouldn't think about it.

Both groups press historical buttons for me by the way. POWER Grouping 
[3] is all about defining groups of resources based on URI structure so 
you can make statements about/set policies for lots of resources at once.

Comments welcome of course. Please cc me directly as I'm not subscribed 
to either list.

Thanks

Phil


[1] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/ldpwg/raw-file/default/ldp-acr.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-grouping/


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Phil Archer
W3C Data Activity Lead
http://www.w3.org/2013/data/

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Received on Monday, 8 September 2014 09:24:52 UTC