Re: [DotGNU]How to authorize?

[Chris Smith]

On Thursday 10 July 2003 13:00, Peter Minten wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> AFAIK there hasn't been much work on the authorization mechanisms in DotGNU
> for the last year. With DGv1 approaching it seems to me that it's important
> to have a clear view on this.

Quite.

mds and I have been talking about MACS a lot recently.  The idea of having a 
common authorisation server is good, and as MACS supports multiple 
authorisation agents, the ideas you expressed in your email can be 
implemented along side others without too much trouble.

mds and I are very interested in the concept of integrating MACS with the DGEE 
so that anyone may write WS based applications to deploy into the dgee, and 
have them benifit from a standard authentication machanism (so anyone needing 
authentication for their app doesn't need to lift a finger :o)

The next logical step is to implement a de-centralised resilient distributed 
MACS over the dgee itself... this is quite a radical idea but certainly 
possible - but best left on the back burner for the time being.

Thought you should know of the auth descussions that have recently taken place 
:o)

Regards,
Chris