[Owncloud] Inter-ownCloud Sharing

[Klaas Freitag]

On 28.05.2012 16:09, Michael Gapczynski wrote:
> 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.
I agree very much that its an rare case which, on the other hand, could 
open doors at some customers. It thus should be an option in the 
enterprise version imo.

> 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.
Yes, agreed.

> 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.
Yes. Maybe you later on can share a more detailed plan.

Klaas