Access Needs for Public Resources

Suggested Use Case

Suppose I build an application allowing a user to manage a website and serve it from their Solid Pod. Supposing we have some way of storing such a static website in a permissive tree (see #240), and are able to describe an access need for this data.

Open questions

• How would an application then define an access need for making this instance of the permissive tree public?
• Also, it might be the case that I want to serve multiple websites, from different instances of such a permissive tree. Would I send an Access Request for this purpose?

Suggested course of action

• Define the concept of a public agent, like foaf:Agent is to be used in WAC for this purpose.
• Perhaps the latter question should actually be clarified under the "Social Agent Shares Access"-flow that is already mentioned in the specification.

Start by reading issue #240, the Access Request section of the Data Interoperability specification, and the existing “Social Agent Shares Access” flow. Done means resolving how an application requests public access for a permissive tree, whether separate websites need separate access requests, and whether a public agent concept should be defined.