Many of our infrastructure services are implemented as agents, yes. We'd love to give developers similarly powerful and low-latency access but it's a much harder problem, in particular with regard to security. Alex
2009/10/7 Joel Dietz <[email protected]> > Is an agent the same thing as an infractructure service? > > As in the access control white paper: > > Delegation allows an account to perform operations with another address as > the > author. Google Wave currently uses this for two cases: > > - An account that is a write-member of a group can perform an > AddParticipant > operation to add an address belonging to that account to a wavelet. > - Google > Wave's spelling ("Spelly"), linking ("Linky"), and other infrastructure > services act on behalf of any address in a wavelet with those services > enabled. > > ... > > This provides Google Wave infrastructure services full access to act as a > user, while being authenticated as a service account. > > And, if so, is the plan to allow developers to write their own > infrastructure services/agents ? > > > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Brian May <[email protected] > > wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:59:38AM -0400, Joe Gregorio wrote: >> > Slide 17 of this presentation shows the relationship between agents and >> > robots: >> > >> > http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dggjrx3s_110fkt37dgb >> >> Thanks for this. >> >> So Spelly and Linky aren't robots, they are agents. As I suspected. >> >> (not secret agents I hope ;-) ) >> >> What is the justification for this? >> >> (some people have expressed concern that a robot might not be the best >> place to >> implement a EMail/Wave gateway - so this may be relevant to these >> discussions) >> -- >> Brian May <[email protected]> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Wave Protocol" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/wave-protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
