WAC-Allow's `access-mode` parameter to allow any term
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Since Jun 16, 2021.
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Description
To enable a wider set of access modes that can be used in the WAC-Allow header field-value, the access-mode parameter should be relaxed to allow any term. WAC-Allow's current definition uses:
access-mode = "read" / "write" / "append" / "control"
Proposed change would allow any term:
access-mode = 1*ALPHA
where the terms are defined in their own spec eg. the WAC spec defines "read", "write", "append", "control" as clear mapping to the terms in the ACL ontology eg. "read" for acl:Read. When new access modes eg. acl:Create are defined and terms such as "create" are mapped to them in a spec, they can be used by implementations conforming to those specifications. (Unrecognised terms are strongly encouraged to be ignored.)
This change also makes it possible for other authorization systems using access modes to define and map terms in their respective specification. See also https://github.com/solid/specification/pull/210#issuecomment-728265065
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