[cap-talk] Citation for ACLs

[David Hopwood]

Bill Tulloh wrote:
> On 7/30/07, Karp, Alan H <alan.karp at hp.com> wrote:
>> I'm writing a paper on ABAC for SOA, and I'm looking for a citation for
>> ACLs.  MarkM suggested Lampson's Protection paper from 1974.  Is there
>> anything earlier?
> 
> I have often seen this paper cited as the origins of the term. I'm not
> sure if there is anything before this.
> 
> R.C. Daley and P.G. Neumann. 1965. A general-purpose file system for
> secondary storage. Proceedings of the Fall Joint Computer Conference.

Yep, that seems to fit the bill:
<http://www.multicians.org/fjcc4.html>.

Saltzer and Schroeder also cite this paper, but only for a particular
implementation detail of Multics (the "prescript field"), not for the
general concept of access control lists.

-- 
David Hopwood <david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk>