Re: Access Control

[Philippe Kahn <philippe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Team, 

actually, this does indeed sound very promising. Why reinvent the wheel? We
at Starfish would support the initiative as it seems logical and in the best
interest of the customers and the market. 

Good deal. 

     -Philippe-   http://www.starfishsoftware.com  (check it out)








At 09:30 PM 8/21/96 -0700, Einar Stefferud wrote:
>Hmmm -- I guess I need not abjectly apologize for accidently letting
>my intended private message to Paul Rarey get loose on the calendar
>mailing list,and all;-)...  BLUSH;-)...
>
>It seems that some good is coming of it, all be it unexpected;-)...
>
>So, I am delighted to see this interest bloooming for CALENDAR use of
>the ASID-DIR work!  If we can just keep this on a roll now, my mission
>will soon be accomplished;-)...  All be it by means of an accident.
>
>Maybe this is my reward for lurking around the places where neat new
>stuff keeps happening.  This has been my role in EMail development
>since I got into it in 1975.  For the story, see Chapter 7 on EMail in
>"Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet." 
>Publisher is Simon & Schuster. ISBN: 0-684-81201-0
>
>It is a good read;-)...  Lots of good insights into the Internet.
>Let me know if your bookstore does not have it in stock;-)...
>I am in league with the authors, as colleagues...  
>
>Onward;-)...\Stef
>
>>From your message Wed, 21 Aug 1996 18:56:46 -0700:
>}
>}Lewis Geer wrote:
>}> 
>}> I think your idea of MIME encapsulation and sub-attribute tagging is a
>}> good idea, if I understand it correctly ("bag and tag").  And this is
>}> speaking as an engineer and not a behemoth ;-)  This is the type of
>}> framework that Darren's draft attempts to set up (see
>}> ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-shakib-mime-prop-00.txt).  An
>}> alternative would be to use or modify the MIME-DIR draft in the ASID
>}> working group since it attempts to do very similar things for LDAP.  I
>}> also believe Dave Crocker proposed such a scheme several years ago.
>}
>}Using the ASID MIME-DIR draft seems like a good goal. The two drafts are
>}very similar, and the changes required to the ASID draft would be
>}minimal.
>}Speaking for ASID, we'd be happy to entertain suggestions for improving
>}the MIME-DIR draft.
>}
>}Seems like it would be a shame to do something completely new, when
>}we've already got something that is basically what you want, and could
>}be perfect with a couple of tweaks.                            -- Tim
>
>