web-access-control-spec
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Web Access Control (WAC)
As @namedgraph pointed out, this is not the only WAC spec. Does anybody know how and why this situation arose? https://www.w3.org/wiki/index.php?title=WebAccessControl&action=history shows edits from @bblfish, @timbl and others over the...
Similar to how you can [request access to a document on Google Docs](https://maustin.net/img/image02.png), we could invent a way such that a visitor could cause an email to be sent to...
Hello! I'm writing on behalf of the Fedora Repository project (https://github.com/fcrepo4) regarding an issue that was raised last week on our weekly tech call. We are in the process of...
Can the spec editors elaborate on the exclusion (by design) of the acl:accessToClass predicate? Is it a problem of entailment? Are there substitute patterns for simplifying ACL structures in SOLID?...
The specification gives an algorithm for [finding the appropriate ACL via inheritance](https://github.com/solid/web-access-control-spec#acl-inheritance-algorithm) but as far as I can see there is no explicit algorithm for finding the authorizations within the...
The current text: "WebID-TLS Delegation. If your implementation uses the WebID-TLS authentication method, it also needs to implement the ability to delegate its requests on behalf of the original user."...
Adding a new triple to an authorization with predicate `acl:validTill` is probably a needed use case. It says an authorization rule is valid till a particular time. The ACL resource...
Add a section with examples illustrating `acl:origin` and `acl:originClass` predicates for filtering agents. (Note to self: get example Turtle statements from @deiu or @timbl.)
[HTTP-Signatures](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cavage-http-signatures/) is an IETF draft standard that is pretty simple way to authenticate over HTTP using a public key. (Indeed both could work together by simply giving a key in...
If we decide to have SPARQL on the server side, an interesting problem emerges: The simplest way to evaluate a query is to only evaluate it over data that the...