[DISCUSS] Proposing authorization for Gremlin Server

[Marc de Lignie]

For a specific use case in my employer's organization I did some initial 
work on opening up Gremlin Server to authorization plugins. It would 
certainly be stimulating to enable a wider audience to use this work by 
contributing it to Apache TinkerPop. But I realize that, given the 
complexity of authorization and its dependence on other TinkerPop 
features, it is certainly not obvious that the TinkerPop team would want 
to support it. The more so because of indications that the TinkerPop 
team wants to move to a more focussed re-implementation based on recent 
theoretical and managerial insights (TP4).

To facilitate a discussion whether or not to support authorization for 
Gremlin Server in some way, I have written a concrete proposal published 
at 
https://yaaics.blogspot.com/2020/06/proposing-authorization-for-gremlin.html

I hope you can give it some attention and formulate your arguments in 
favor or against it on the dev mailing list, or maybe provide 
perspectives on an alternative proposal.

Best wishes,    Marc