[Dev] sharing items

[Lisa Dusseault]

This seems wise to me, too.

(but it still won't give us a sharing transport with zero knowledge of 
the content model -- just less special knowledge)

Lisa

On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:25 AM, John Anderson wrote:

> Hi Morgen:
>
> I was thinking about the problem you posed yesterday, where two people 
> want to share the same item, but each wants to give it a different 
> name. Ideally, we'd like the item's data and UUID to be the same for 
> all the copies, which makes it difficult to have different names.
>
> However, we already have a potential situation where the data might 
> differ: only a subset of shared data might be shared because some of 
> the attributes are be private. Although we don't have a mechanism for 
> this yet, we've postulated some ACL mechanism to specify which 
> attributes are private.
>
> Could we use a similar mechanism to indicate a set of items that are 
> not shared on the shared item, e.g. the name attribute? If the sharing 
> transport used this ACL information, it wouldn't need any more 
> knowledge of the content model -- simplifying the design. Perhaps non 
> shared attributes on items could also solve some of our other sharing 
> problems.
>
> John
>
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