Hi Andrei,
I am interested in participating. I've been looking to add WAC to
VIVO to work with the WebID4VIVO that we have created to allow
inter-VIVO operations. -- Erich
Erich Bremer
http://www.ebremer.com
On 10/17/13 9:05 AM, Andrei Sambra wrote:
Dear all,
For those of you who know me, please skip this paragraph. For the
others, I would first like to introduce myself. My name is Andrei
Sambra and for the past three years I have been involved in different
W3C groups, such as WebID, LDP and RWW (co-chair). As an advocate of
Semantic Web technologies, especially those taking user privacy into
consideration, I am currently working on two projects, MyProfile [1]
(WebID provider / social network) and RWW.IO <http://RWW.IO> [2], the
later including support for WebID, LDP and WAC [3]. RWW.IO
<http://RWW.IO> is a Read/Write Web-based personal data store.
Over the past few years, we have noticed that Linked Data is no longer
a technology limited to the public space, finding its way into
consumer applications. As a consequence, it becomes increasingly
important to be able to protect access to private/sensitive resources.
To this regard, the Web Access Control (WAC) ontology [3] has been put
together by Tim Berners-Lee, offering the basic means to set up ACLs.
Due to its nature (i.e. an ontology) however, it does not provide the
formalism necessary to implement it in order to achieve
interoperability, nor does it provide an organized space where it can
be discussed and improved.
The reason behind writing the email is that I would like to know how
many people are interested in participating to the standardization
process of a Web Access Control spec.
The Read Write Web community group has so far been the host of
inquiries regarding the WAC ontology. However, being a community
group, it does not have access to W3C's teleconference system, nor to
the issue tracking system. Depending on your interest in a WAC spec,
and the preliminary discussions we might have, we may very well have
to create a dedicated working group. For now however, I suggest we use
the public RWW list (public-...@w3.org <mailto:public-...@w3.org>) in
order to coordinate the efforts on this subject.
Please let me know how you stand on this subject and perhaps suggest a
way to count who is interested in participating (doodle, something
else maybe?).
Best wishes,
Andrei
[1] https://my-profile.eu/
[2] https://rww.io/
[3] http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebAccessControl
<http://www.w3.org/wiki/WebAccessControl>