[Owncloud] Inter-ownCloud Sharing

[Michael Gapczynski]

On Monday, May 28, 2012 06:37:57 PM Peter Chubb wrote:
> there are use cases where it's important for the admin to br able to control
> sharing, to prevent, say, corporate info lealing to unauthorised places.

Robin and I discussed the project yesterday and came to some conclusions.

The use case of sharing between two companies is extremely limited. The chance 
of two companies that need to share files and both use ownCloud is very small. 
The focus should be on sharing with individuals, in some syntax as Frank 
discussed. Requiring admins to link ownClouds to allow inter sharing breaks 
the workflow. Rather, as Peter points out, admins should be able to control 
the instances that users can share to, if the admin decides that it needs to 
be restricted. This can be implemented as a whitelist of ownCloud instances. 

I still believe this project could be used to design an api for the desktop 
and mobile clients to use. The end goal should still be to allow for inter 
owncCloud sharing. This means that the authentication, action listening, and 
sharing logic needs to be separated. 


Michael