On Oct 31, 2005, at 9:58 AM, Tim Bray wrote:
While I think Roy's got a point, I forecast endless argument over what is entry metadata and what is blog-level-configuration info and what's a fish and what's a bicycle. It's a reasonable debate and I'd be surprised if everyone agreed; that's why pub:control still feels like a handy container for dumping all this miscellany that everyone agrees is not part of the entry's content, but is rather publishing-system apparatus. -Tim
It needs to work with AAA mechanisms wherein there exists one blog and multiple authors, each with their own roles and authority to make different types of changes. That means operations on limited resources (add an entry) should not be capable of making arbitrary changes that apply to all resources, since allowing such changes prevents segmentation of access control by URI (the only way for an HTTP server to provide application-independent access control). I think it is a fundamental design principle of HTTP. ....Roy
