MSO and multiple communities

[Tony Linde]

> If we say that a user can be in a group in a community but 
> not actually in that community, then isn't a bit hard?

Why? The list of members in the group includes that user's account id. No?

T.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Rixon [mailto:gtr at ast.cam.ac.uk] 
> Sent: 06 July 2004 13:58
> To: Tony Linde
> Cc: grid at ivoa.net
> Subject: RE: MSO and multiple communities
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Tony Linde wrote:
> 
> > To my mind it adds nothing that cannot be achieved with 
> groups since 
> > anyone can be made a member of a group regardless of the 
> community to 
> > which they first registered. And it introduces the complexity of 
> > trying to recognise where multiple accounts belong to the 
> same person 
> > and reconciling the privileges associated with each account.
> 
> Possibly. But federating group membership across communities 
> is about as difficult as federating community memberships 
> directly.  I don't see any finesse that makes it easier.
> 
> If we say that a user can be in a group in a community but 
> not actually in that community, then isn't a bit hard?
> 
> 
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