- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
 - Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 19:23:06 +0200
 - To: Web Payments <public-webpayments@w3.org>, public-rww <public-rww@w3.org>
 - Message-ID: <CAKaEYhLFxZNtxEM1rcQaKq2O0rVhP9OY6QBLxPuMRRKbvznK+A@mail.gmail.com>
 
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 17:23:35 UTC