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@bouncepaw @jg10 Permissions are a bit of a mess, unfortunately, as there are (so far) two competing standards for that, so different servers might implement different standards. Solid doesn't mandate a particular one, so it's even possible that additional ones arise in the future. The two specs are: - Web Access Control: https://solidproject.org/TR/wac 4 comments
ACP has been mostly pushed by Inrupt, the company Tim Berners-Lee founded around Solid, and which is mostly focusing on enterprise customers. (Disclosure: I used to work there a couple of years ago.) It's the method their Solid instance https://pod.inrupt.com uses. WAC was the initial access control spec for Solid, and is still used by the main community-used server, https://solidcommunity.net. So they're both the main focus for an important cohort of people, unfortunately... In general it's important to note that the Solid specifications are still in flux - but I don't think permissions is a major issue at this time - WAC and ACP are sufficiently similar that two possible solutions include having client libraries interoperate across both or updating WAC to include missing features |
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@VincentTunru @jg10 Sad.
WAC has received a new version this year, while ACP only in 2022. I suppose the specwriters are more focused on WAC?