2010/6/18 Nathan <nat...@webr3.org> > Following the recent update of a few of the design issues, one change to > the 'Socially Aware Cloud Storage' [1] introduced (among many other > interesting updates) the following sentence: >
Great spot. > > 'If I want to say that I want to be your friend, for example, I could > write that as a simple one-line statement into a "friend requests" file > which you allow me write access to. In fact, I only need append access, > and not even read or general write access to that list.' > What would the one line statement equivalent to 'I want to be your friend' be? > > Hand in hand with this, the ACL Ontology has been updated to to include > a new acl:Append (in addition to the existing :Control, :Read, :Write) > > http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#Append > 'Append accesses are specific write access which only add information, > and do not remove information. > For text files, for example, append access allows bytes to be added onto > the end of the file. > For RDF graphs, Append access allows adds triples to the graph but does > not remove any. > Append access is useful for dropbox functionality. > Dropbox can be used for link notification, which the information added > is a notification that a some link has been made elsewhere relevant to > the given resource.' > > Best, > > Nathan > > [1] http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/CloudStorage.html > _______________________________________________ > foaf-protocols mailing list > foaf-protoc...@lists.foaf-project.org > http://lists.foaf-project.org/mailman/listinfo/foaf-protocols >