- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 18:48:50 -0700
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
On June 16, Dylan Barrell wrote: >>5.2 Access Inheritance >> >>It must be possible to assign an access attribute to a collection >>(such as a directory). By default, resources contained in a collection >>must inherit access attributes from their parent resource. >> >>5.2.1 Rationale >> >>Inheritance of security information between directories and files >>within most file systems behave in this manner. This promotes an >>orthagonal implementation on the Web. > >I think that specifying that the access attributes must inherit from the >parent resource will require us to specify too many details regarding the >semantics of changing the permissions of the various resources (eg what >happens to the children's access attributes when we change those of the >parent). I think this should be restated as > >"5.2 It must be possible to assign an access attribute to a collection >(such as a directory). The system must assign appropriate default access >attributes to resources added to a collection." Hmm. I think I like this even better than the original requirement -- I think this provides a good tradeoff between wanting to assign individual access permissions to resources, but still have some way for a resource to receive its initial, default permissions. - Jim
Received on Thursday, 19 June 1997 21:49:00 UTC