- From: Yaron Goland <yarong@microsoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 17:24:18 -0700
- To: "'Larry Masinter'" <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: "'Steve Carter'" <SRCarter@novell.com>, w3c-dist-auth@w3.org, slein@wrc.xerox.com
So why not form an ACL working group and have part of its charter be "Make sure we satisfy DAV needs"? Yaron > -----Original Message----- > From: Larry Masinter [SMTP:masinter@parc.xerox.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 1997 1:30 PM > To: Yaron Goland > Cc: 'Steve Carter'; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org; slein@wrc.xerox.com > Subject: Re: WEBDAV Security > > 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 >
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