search

textileio / papers

Textile Whitepapers
12 stars 3 forks source link

TIP 002: ACL Chains #66

Open sanderpick opened 4 years ago

sanderpick commented 4 years ago

Mutable ACLs are hard. Static ACLs are restrictive. Is there some middle ground?

One straightforward way to implement a static ACL is to use some part of the thread ID to encode the ACL's address, enabling all participants to independently find the AC rules.

A small improvement here: Instead of using a single ACL, use a chain of ACLs, where each one points to the previous. Some part of thread ID would then point to the (or one of the) ACL HEADs. This has a couple nice features:

carsonfarmer commented 4 years ago

I really really like this proposal a lot. It is simple, but 'fixes' a lot of complex issues. I think we should discuss this as a core idea in our call with @aschmahmann this week.