Re: Rights Expression Language (REL) for Activity/Streams/Pub?

On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 at 23:16, a <a@trwnh.com> wrote:

> similarly, one might imagine "delegating permission to post on an account"
> as a capability delegation, not as an expression of rights. the general
> observer has no need to know who you have given permission to manage the
> account -- granting permission is a private action. you might use ODRL to
> describe the metadata of such a capability delegation, but that is
> something you should take up with a specific capability framework, like
> ZCap (which has properties like `caveats` to indicate that certain
> capabilities have been attenuated out). i have not personally reviewed the
> compatibility of ODRL and ZCap, so i cannot speak further on the matter.
>
>> Communications should be based on trust and every party should know all
the information about the communication, otherwise people will no longer
trust your platform.

-- 
Aaron Gray

Independent Open Source Software Engineer, Computer Language Researcher,
Information Theorist, and Computer Scientist.