The prediction, in brief:

As enterprises grow their document management needs, the need for cross-domain authentication mechanisms grows. Likewise, the Web will need richer methods for expressing access control and authorization than most Web services currently provide. One common issue in all of the systems is detecting the boundary of the item to which a particular authorization might apply. Access control and authorization might need to apply to a different granularity of object than is denoted with a single identifier.

Predictor: Masinter, Larry

Prediction, in context:

Larry Masinter, at the time a principal engineer at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, made the following remarks in a research presentation at INET ’95, the Internet Society’s 1995 International Networking Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27-30. Masinter had worked in the area of document-management-system architecture since 1988, he was involved with the Web standards groups from their inception, and he had been active in research in regard to digital libraries since 1993. He says:”It is clear that the issues that are primary in each domain (intellectual property in libraries, complex authorization needs in document management, and secure communication for spontaneous transactions on the Web) will also become important in the others. In particular, as enterprises grow their document management needs, the need for cross-domain authentication mechanisms grows. Likewise, the Web will need richer methods for expressing access control and authorization than most Web services currently provide. One common issue in all of the systems is detecting the boundary of the item to which a particular authorization might apply. Access control and authorization might need to apply to a different granularity of object than is denoted with a single identifier.”

Date of prediction: June 1, 1995

Topic of prediction: Information Infrastructure

Subtopic: Language/Interface/Software

Name of publication: ISOC INET '95 (conference)

Title, headline, chapter name: Document Management, Digital Libraries and the Web

Quote Type: Direct quote

Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.isoc.org/HMP/PAPER/243/html/paper.html

This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Anderson, Janna Quitney