[Design] Cosmo ticket ideas
Christopher J. Tengi
tengi at CS.Princeton.EDU
Tue Apr 11 10:08:39 PDT 2006
I like the idea of granting access rights to calendar data using
tickets, but I can see a potential problem if a user has more than a
few tickets active. If I, as a user, have a number of calendars and
want to grant rights to differing groups of people for varying
amounts of time, it might be very easy for me to forget which ticket
is being used for what purpose. To make it easier to manage tickets,
I suggest a comment field associated with each ticket, allowing the
user to (optionally) add a notation to a ticket. I believe that this
would provide a way for users to keep track of finer-grained access
rights to their calendars than is possible currently.
In addition to ticket comments, I was thinking that it might be
useful to have the ability to restrict access to users of the cosmo
server. If the calendar being shared was somewhat sensitive and
there was a concern that the ticket might fall into the wrong hands,
the ability to restrict access to users of the server might give a
higher comfort level to the users. Given that I don't know the
mechanics behind WebDAV(/webcal:) and CalDAV access to calendars, I
don't even know if this is possible, but I offer it as a suggestion
to be considered. Perhaps this idea could be part of a more generic
ACL mechanism.
/Chris
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