Dear Kingsley,
Am 05.05.2011 um 14:01 schrieb Kingsley Idehen: > On 5/5/11 6:06 AM, Sebastian Schaffert wrote: >>> > + How is authentication and authorisation handled (like WebID [5] and >>> > WAC [6])? >> Since we are an applied research centre, we want to be standards-based as >> far as possible. There are actually two separate issues you are suggesting >> here. Authentication and authorisation. The authentication we are working on >> will be based on OAuth2, and we already have an experimental implementation >> for that. For authorisation we are planning to use access control lists in >> some form, but this is not really thought through yet- The proposal in [6] >> looks promising for access control lists. >> >> >> > > Put differently, the question above is about this: are you aware of the WebID > protocol, and its fidelity re. RESTful interaction with Data Objects? > > WebID provides a fine grained solution for ACL constrained interaction with > Data Objects via their URIs. Yes, we are aware of the WebID protocol. In fact, Henry Story has worked with us on FOAF+SSL in the scope of the KiWi project when he was still at Sun. And I have been in contact with some of the WebID people regarding a EU proposal on user profile management using Linked Data. ;-) But the hint to the access control lists is very valuable in any case, because for me WebID was mainly a way of authenticating a user and not for authorising and managing access to resources. Indeed, I didn't find a reference to access control lists in the two references you send, and neither in the emerging specification at [3]. Can you point me to it? [3] http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/webid/spec/ > > Links: > > 1. http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebID - WebID Wiki > 2. http://bblfish.net/tmp/2011/04/26/ -- WebID Protocol & Browsers Paper for > upcoming W3C workshop on Identity in the Browser > Greetings, Sebastian -- | Dr. Sebastian Schaffert [email protected] | Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft http://www.salzburgresearch.at | Head of Knowledge and Media Technologies Group +43 662 2288 423 | Jakob-Haringer Strasse 5/II | A-5020 Salzburg
