Many of us are now using web ACLs on a regular basis. A rule may look like: <> <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#accessTo> <.>, <> ; <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#agent> <http://melvincarvalho.com/#me> ; <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#mode> <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Read>, <http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Write> . This essentially says that my user ID can have read and write access to the named resource. I thought it might be an interesting idea to extend this type of access control to allow payment protected resources. So each server will maintain a balance for each user, as is typical with many commercial business models these days. If the user does not have any credit the server will return a 402 HTTP response code, explaining the cost of the item and how they can top up their balance. This could either be via a traditional payment method such as Euros, or, say, via a balance in crypto currencies, or as part of a loyalty / reward scheme that the web site issues. I'm wondering if we can extend the vocab we have to add payments? Perhaps a simple way would be to subclass #accessTo with #paidAccessTo Then have in the ACL rule a simple payment amount (or rule) Then say something like: <#amount> 0.001^^BTC Anyone have any thoughts on whether this could be implemented?Received on Tuesday, 27 May 2014 17:23:36 UTC
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