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Proposal: Access-Controlled SPARQL Query over a Solid Pod

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Active

Research direction

Start with the unofficial editor's draft at specs/access-controlled-query and compare it with the live preview linked in the issue. Determine whether the Solid group's requested outcome is a defined specification change and what review or acceptance criteria would mark the proposal complete.

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Description

Problem. There's no standard way to query a pod's RDF server-side — clients must fetch whole resources and filter locally.

Proposal. A read-only HTTP endpoint answering SPARQL over a pod, returning only the triples the authenticated agent may Read. A new read interface layered on the pod's existing authorization (WAC/ACP) — authentication-mechanism-agnostic, like the core Solid Protocol; not a new authorization model or wire protocol. Invariant: a query never reveals a triple the agent couldn't read directly.

Draft. https://github.com/jeswr/solid-specs/tree/main/specs/access-controlled-query
Live preview. https://jeswr.github.io/solid-specs/specs/access-controlled-query/

Status. Unofficial editor's draft, offered for the group's consideration and discussion.

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