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Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control Protocol

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Network Working Group                                           G. Clemm
Request for Comments: 3744                                           IBM
Category: Standards Track                                     J. Reschke
                                                              greenbytes
                                                               E. Sedlar
                                                      Oracle Corporation
                                                            J. Whitehead
                                                         U.C. Santa Cruz
                                                                May 2004


           Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
                        Access Control Protocol

Status of this Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This document specifies a set of methods, headers, message bodies,
   properties, and reports that define Access Control extensions to the
   WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol.  This protocol permits a
   client to read and modify access control lists that instruct a server
   whether to allow or deny operations upon a resource (such as
   HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) method invocations) by a given
   principal.  A lightweight representation of principals as Web
   resources supports integration of a wide range of user management
   repositories.  Search operations allow discovery and manipulation of
   principals using human names.













Clemm, et al.               Standards Track
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