[cap-talk] Fwd: [cors] TAG request concerning CORS &Next Step(s)

Adam Barth cap-talk at adambarth.com
Thu Jun 25 17:59:04 EDT 2009


In #4, I wasn't imagining that the acme users have an account at
Google.  Imagine the stock ticker running on ACME's home page.  It's
not really the user's credentials that authorize them to get the raw
data for the ticker.  It's ACME's.

Adam


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 2:51 PM, <ihab.awad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is a PDF with my formulation of the problem.
>
>  http://sites.google.com/site/ihabawad/Home/cors-vs-ocap-example.pdf
>
> The core conclusion is that the distinction between the two approaches
> is a social one: do we want a model where everyone has one account at
> Google (and one of a small number of other centralized sites), and all
> mashups are just one-level layers on top of these centralized sites?
> Or do we envision a truly distributed web of cooperation?
>
> --
> Ihab A.B. Awad, Palo Alto, CA
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