WSO2 Governance Registry (http://wso2.org/library/governance-registry)
is an Open Source registry/repository that implements fine-grained
access control for Atom/AtomPub. We use Apache Shindig as the AtomPub
implementation and have added access control.

Paul

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Alistair Miles
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies for mailing both atom-* lists, I wasn't sure which was the right
> forum for this.
>
> With colleagues at the University of Oxford, I've been doing some work on
> access control for atompub-based data repositories. We have a vanilla atompub
> implementation called AtomBeat, which has a security plugin that supports
> fine-grained access control policies via access control lists. There's some
> documentation at:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/atombeat/wiki/TutorialAccessControl
>
> I guess I'm emailing because I'd be very interested to hear from anyone
> who's done any work on authorization and access control for systems based
> on atompub. This stuff isn't easy, and I'd really appreciate any insights
> or experience or links to discussions or existing implementation work.
>
> Other relevant work I'm aware of is the work on access control in CMIS [1]
> (which I need to study in more detail, haven't fully understood yet), the
> various bits of the GData APIs that support access control (e.g., calendar
> API [2]), and a discussion of feed access control and licensing on rss-public
> from 2006 [3] ... please let me know if I'm missing anything major.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alistair
>
> [1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/cmis/CMIS/v1.0/os/cmis-spec-v1.0.html
> [2] 
> http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/data/2.0/developers_guide_protocol.html#SharingACalendar
> [3] http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rss-public/message/724
>
> --
> Alistair Miles
> Head of Epidemiological Informatics
> Centre for Genomics and Global Health <http://cggh.org>
> The Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics
> Roosevelt Drive
> Oxford
> OX3 7BN
> United Kingdom
> Web: http://purl.org/net/aliman
> Email: [email protected]
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 287669
>
>



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Co-Founder and CTO, WSO2
Apache Synapse PMC Chair
OASIS WS-RX TC Co-chair

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