adding support for user authentication within Mapserver for GetCapablities and GetMap

[Gerry Creager]

Sean Gillies wrote:
> Gregor Mosheh wrote:
>> Gerry Creager wrote:
>>> Rights management is now well into the investigatory and 
>>> specification stages in OGC.
>>
>> He, that's excellent to hear. Thanks for the tip.
>>
> 
> No, it's not excellent. DRM is defective by design.

I agree that the term strikes fear in the hearts of all who seek truth, 
justice, etc., but that's the term they've taken and the larger data and 
software providers are concerned that the datasets||databases they've 
spent years creating will be lost if there's not a rights management 
scheme.  I'm torn on some of their argument, but if all I ever told them 
was, "Hogwash" (although I'm usually accused of being more direct) I'd 
not get very far.  They're convinced.  So we work with 'em.

What we need is some consistent form of authentication, authorization 
and capabilities management.  The Internet2-based National Middleware 
Initiative handled some of that pretty well.

gerry
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