[OpenID] openid and acl's

Johannes Ernst jernst+openid.net at netmesh.us
Sat Aug 4 05:02:53 UTC 2007


This is why some people -- e.g. James McGovern -- have suggested the  
use of XACML for this purpose.

If we could reuse, why should we reinvent? ;-)


On Aug 3, 2007, at 10:59, Joseph Holsten wrote:

> Scott Kveton wrote:
>>> Anyone discussed the idea of using OpenID as a basis for a  
>>> distributed ACL's
>>> system?
> One thing that's important about ACLs is grouping. You wouldn't acces
> a firewall that requires you to type in every single IP address. You
> wouldn't use windows permissions where you needed to specify every
> user's access.
>
> Has someone proposed a wildcard scheme or group identifier via OpenID,
> because that would be awesome.
>
> http://josephholsten.com
>
> ps sorry for the double post scott
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Johannes Ernst
NetMesh Inc.


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