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Access Needs for Public Resources

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start by reading issue #240, the Access Request section of the Data Interoperability specification, and the existing “Social Agent Shares Access” flow. Done means resolving how an application requests public access for a permissive tree, whether separate websites need separate access requests, and whether a public agent concept should be defined.

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Description

Suggested Use Case

Suppose I build an application allowing a user to manage a website and serve it from their Solid Pod. Supposing we have some way of storing such a static website in a permissive tree (see #240), and are able to describe an access need for this data.

Open questions

  • How would an application then define an access need for making this instance of the permissive tree public?
  • Also, it might be the case that I want to serve multiple websites, from different instances of such a permissive tree. Would I send an Access Request for this purpose?

Suggested course of action

  • Define the concept of a public agent, like foaf:Agent is to be used in WAC for this purpose.
  • Perhaps the latter question should actually be clarified under the "Social Agent Shares Access"-flow that is already mentioned in the specification.
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