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Clarify: 'acl' rel link is a naming hint, not always points to existing file #8

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dmitrizagidulin opened this issue Apr 9, 2016 · 3 comments
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@dmitrizagidulin
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Add an explanation to the ACL Resource Discovery section that the rel="acl" link will be returned even if no actual individual .acl file is present. That is, it's a naming hint, and not necessarily a link to an existing ACL resource.

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Otto-AA commented Jul 8, 2019

From my interpretation "a client can discover the location of its corresponding ACL" indicates that the ACL file actually has to exist if the link value is present. Therefore I would also welcome clarification on that.

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@Otto-AA Yeah, exactly, the spec wording sort of implies that the file exists.
Whereas that's not the case, it's more like "if it were to exist, this is what it would be" -- it's most often just a naming hint.

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csarven commented Jul 8, 2021

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8288#section-2.1 :

[Link Relation Types by definition] only describe how the
current context is related to another resource.

Closing this issue as consensus is deemed to be captured in WAC Editor's Draft: https://solid.github.io/web-access-control-spec/ . https://solid.github.io/web-access-control-spec/#acl-resources details ACL resource discovery and representation, and there is no requirement that an ACL resource needs to have a representation. https://solid.github.io/web-access-control-spec/#effective-acl-resource-algorithm includes the case where an ACL resource may not have a representation.

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