Re: Use Cases and Requirements document for WebID

On 11 Dec 2012, at 16:15, Alexandre Bertails <bertails@w3.org> wrote:

> For what it's worth, I had flushed some ideas at [1].

These seem relevant

Use-Cases:
	• referring to one's identity
	• WebID-based authentication
	• WebID-based authorization

Requirements:
	• one MUST be able to change one's WebID
	• one MUST distinguish a WebID (a simple URI for a Web Resource) from a WebID Profile (the Web Information Resource). This SHOULD not rely on dereferencing.
	• the system MUST take efficiency into account
	• the system MUST not introduce any incompatility with LDP, especially for Write operations
	• the Web Profile MUST define a default representation format
	• the system SHOULD considerer legacy WebIDs (or FOAF/SSL) whenever possible

It seems to me that we may need to put WebAccessControl into the WebID group, as it
is very tied to authentication and so to WebID-Authentication over TLS, and is one of
the key use cases for WebID.

  Henry

> Alexandre.
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/WebID_Definition/Requirements
> 
> On 12/11/2012 10:11 AM, Henry Story wrote:
>> To make some progress, I think we need a use cases and requirements document.
>> 
>> At TPAC the main interest was to be able to work with the newly emerging
>> Linked Data Platform group [1]. I don't think that LDP says anything about
>> 303s so I don't think this is in fact necessarily relevant to the 303 vs hash
>> debate.
>> 
>> But it does give us a good reason to have HTTP URIs because we can then use
>> that platform to do things like the following:
>> 
>> 
>> Create an account
>> -----------------
>> 
>>   ( requires LDP + WebAccessControl )
>> 
>>   1. Find an a LD Collection that is publicly available and allows creation of containers
>>   2. create a container that gives default access to the creator ( perhaps using hash id )
>>   3. creator can POST a WebID Profile to container with public key
>> 
>> Restful Mail
>> ------------
>> 
>>   1. Use the WebID profile to find a Collection for sending mail like content
>>   2. POST a mail like entity there after authenticating with WebID
>>      ( now that gives us secure mail )
>> 
>> Pingback
>> --------
>> 
>>    similar to Restful Mail, but simpler
>> 
>> 
>> Friend of a friend Access
>> -------------------------
>> 
>>  Allow friends of friends access to some resources
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> So we have a page for this here which we started a few years back
>> 
>>  http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/wiki/Use_Cases_and_Requirements
>> 
>> I think it is time to work on that one again.
>> 
>> Henry
>> 
>> [1] http://www.w3.org/2012/ldp/hg/ldp.html
>> 
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> 

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