[DotGNU]arch: Owner of the Data (demangle before reading)

[Stephen Compall]

http://www.dotgnu.org/faq.html wrote:
> The DotGNU webservice server requires that for each webservice and
> each set of data that it acts on, there is an "owner of the data"
> who has the right to download the entire set of data together with
> the program which implements the webservice.  Program which have
> been downloaded in this way can be executed in any DotGNU Secure
> Execution Environment on a desktop computer or on a DotGNU
> webservices server.

How can this be implemented? I have thought of a way to put this in the 
webservice<->seedaemons comm, as a pre-connection identification 
(owner-of-the-data|visitor (!owner)|guest (no-auth)), thought it's kind 
of messy without a state of connectedness (that Goldwater doesn't 
provide). DG-Box can solve some of the auxiliary-file problems, but 
probably not the location of the user's data. So what is the technical 
solution?

I would suppose it would have something to do with limiting what data 
the service can access for each virtual identity. Ugh. But I would like 
to know about the technical background for this. Though you probably 
figured it all out in July 2001.

Will it be necessary to return to the "DotGNU API" model?

OT: how about some sort of serialization for the user's data? It can be 
set to go to file, db, whatever, thus putting data under control of 
"DotGNU persistent-data API". Sorry for ranting here, but that's what 
you get with random (point) movements and just-in-time questions :)

BTW, there is no owner-of-the-data in Network SEE arch 2.1.

(continues to overload [developers]: 
<http://dotgnu.org/pipermail/developers/2002-October/008370.html>)
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