- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:30:22 PDT
- To: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- CC: "'Steve Carter'" <SRCarter@novell.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, slein@wrc.xerox.com
Yaron, In my experience, most document management and version management systems provide their own access control list mechanisms, because those that are available in the rest of the underlying infrastructure are inadequate for the purpose of distributed authoring and versioning. They may rely on the underlying host mechanisms for authentication (although frequently not, e.g., database systems often have their own authentication mechanisms.) I don't think we're too far into disagreement, I just think that we won't be done until we are able to make the appropriate link between DAV and the ACL mechanism(s) that DAV supports. Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
Received on Wednesday, 16 April 1997 20:16:03 UTC