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   Re: [xml-dev] Blended Authentication (AKA "Granular Access Control")

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>>Authenticating a user for access to particular data only within a given
>>context means authenticating that user only for someone else's preconception
>>or prejudice regarding how that data is to be used or processed. The effect of
>>such discrimination is to prevent the uniquely useful processing of data with
>>a particular expertise precisely because the creator or custodian of that data
>>did not comprehend that expertise a priori and was therefore not competent
>>itself to render that particular benefit in processing. Quite simply,
>>obviating in the name of security the uniquely useful benefits which truly
>>expert processing confers is the choice of a known stupidity over an as yet
>>undiscovered enlightenment.
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wow, that sounds very impressive.  upon inspection, however, it falls down.

Will you make all your files world-readable so that the distirbuted 
print-spooler can get access to them?  Or will you not be able to submit 
a URL on your local host to the REST printer?

    /r$







 

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