Rick Permis wrote:
Hello!
I am considering starting development on a Wiki-Platform integrated in
a RBAC-framework like PERMIS (
http://sec.cs.kent.ac.uk/permis/). This
would permit to implement a cooperative document creation/distribution
with a need to know / need to share concept on part of or whole pages.
XWiki seems to be a good candidate for that.
Is there any interest by somebody else on this?
Cheers,
- Rick
Hi Rick,
As you are sending your message to the users list, I do hope you are not
only waiting for developers' answers!
From an user point of view: we are indeed interested in such an approach!
As stated in a presentation from the eBiquity research group, "managing
information in open, distributed environments with appropriate security
and privacy is increasingly important". We entirely subscribe that. In
fact we have been advised to take a look to XWiki by a Mediawiki list
member when asking about managing access control.
Currently we are trying to integrate our simple XWiki installation with
our eDirectory directory service where we use RBS to manage what users
can/can't do with directory objects.
I think I can more or less infer what you proposal could mean. An I only
can say that it will be great to have such a feature in/with XWiki.
As for how we could help. I can not figure out it. But we will keep
track of this and any related thread to see how/when we can jump into
the initiative.
Greetings,
Ricardo
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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team