Comparison with ESS Access Requests and Grants

I was just reading https://docs.inrupt.com/ess/latest/security/access-requests-grants/ and it seemed that ESS access requests:

An agent sends an access request to the resource owner. In ESS, the access request is serialized as a VC.

are quite similar to this panel's Data Needs:

A given Social Agent or Application expresses their access needs by providing one or more Access Need Groups to the Social Agent controlling the data they require access to.

And that ESS access grants:

For an approved request, ESS creates an access grant with an approved status.

are quite similar to this panel's Access Authorizations:

An Access Authorization records the decision of a Social Agent to grant access to some portion of data in their control to another Agent.

Given the existence of these two apparently similar systems within our project's community, would maybe it make sense to create a library that abstracts the differences and can deal with both transparently?

Start by comparing the ESS access requests and grants documentation with the Data Interoperability Panel specification sections on Data Needs and Access Authorizations. The issue does not name files, tests, or an implementation entry point. Done would require a settled scope for whether a transparent abstraction library is wanted and how the two systems' differences should be handled.