On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > On 10 August 2013 10:56, Henry Story <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote: > >> >> On 10 Aug 2013, at 00:18, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: >> >> >> When talking about this with Alexandre Bertails he thought that >> rel="meta" was >> >> not the right relation and that rel="acl" would be more correct. >> > >> > Yes. >> > >> > It will be fixed. >> >> We need to get those who have implementations to agree on this first. :-) >> >> And I am not sure what forum is available where we can agree on edits to >> the acl ontolgy or the http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebAccessControl wiki page, >> so I am sending this mail a bit widely around. The WebAccessControl wiki >> page suggests that the RWW Community Group is the place to discuss this. >> >> I suppose for the moment the WebAccessControl wiki page plays the role of >> a >> spec. It says: >> >> [[ >> The client follows, for example, an HTTP header field: >> >> Link: <meta/profile.meta>; rel=meta >> ]] >> >> Alexandre Bertails once argued that meta is too general, and that this >> should >> be an "acl" link. Neither "acl" nor "meta" are registered in the iana >> document >> http://www.iana.org/assignments/link-relations/link-relations.xhtml >> which is I think where this needs to be registered. >> See http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-6.1 >> >> For us to register this we should probably have something a bit more >> spec like than the wiki page. >> >> I also would like to add to the ontology >> - support for regular expressions on urls >> - a acl:include relation to include acls from other documents >> > > I'm happy to change implementations if there's a good reason to. > > However, we've been using rel="meta" since at least 2009 > That's not a good enough reason not to change it. :) > > My understanding of the ACL system was that is was a metaphor for UNIX > style inodes which provide meta data about a file. While the ACL is in > there, there can be other information that is fundamental to the resource > too (or we may wish to add some later). > The advantage of using rel="acl" is that if you have a binary file (i.e. a picture), you can use rel="acl" for access control policies and rel="meta" to provide more information about it. Andrei > > There has been previous discussions to register rel="meta" with IANA e.g. > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/2010JanMar/0244.html > > >> >> >> Social Web Architect >> http://bblfish.net/ >> >> >> >
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