- From: John Stracke <francis@netscape.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 09:45:27 -0700
- To: "Jeffrey E. Sussna" <jes@kuantech.com>
- CC: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
Jeffrey E. Sussna wrote: > 1. I think we can learn much from the LDAP access control approach (WebDAV > ACL's already sound quite similar). For example, the spec leaves open the > question of how ACE's are actually represented and accessed. If they are > simply special properties, they can be accessed in the same way as other > properties. Also if, as in LDAP, an ACE can apply to a property, then the > question of controlling access to ACE's themselves is resolved. I think these two approaches are mutually exclusive. Until/unless DAV defines some way to reference a property by URI, a property cannot itself have properties. So, if ACLs are properties, properties can't have ACLs. -- /====================================================================\ |John (Francis) Stracke |My opinions are my own.|S/MIME supported | |Software Retrophrenologist|=========================================| |Netscape Comm. Corp. | You're just jealous because the voices | |francis@netscape.com | only talk to me. | \====================================================================/ New area code for work number: 650
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