Defines the element of Authorization and its essential properties, and also some classes of access such as read and write.
An element of access control, allowing agent to agents access of some kind to resources or classes of resources
A person or social entity to being given the right
A class of persons or social entities to being given the right
The information resource to which access is being granted.
A class of information resources to which access is being granted.
A directory for which this authorization is used for new files in the directory.
access
Any kind of access to a resource. Don't use this, use R W and RW
read
write
append
Append accesses are specific write access which only add information, and do not remove information. For text files, for example, append access allows bytes to be added onto the end of the file. For RDF graphs, Append access allows adds triples to the graph but does not remove any. Append access is useful for dropbox functionality. Dropbox can be used for link notification, which the information added is a notification that a some link has been made elsewhere relevant to the given resource.
control
Allows read/write access to the ACL for the resource(s)
The Access Control file for this information resource. This may of course be a virtual resorce implemented by the access control system. Note also HTTP's header Link: foo.meta ;rel=meta can be used for this.
owner
The person or other agent which owns this. For example, the owner of a file in a filesystem. There is a sense of right to control. Typically defaults to the agent who craeted something but can be changed.