474 Hi, recently I come to know about this protocol: ACAP, a protocol to implement access control on your content. Here is some bits from their documentation: "The Automated Content Access Protocol (“ACAP”) is being developed by publishers and technology partners, including search engines, led by the European Publishers Council and the World Association of Newspapers, to communicate publishers’ usage permissions and policies electronically. The initial focus is on aggregation of content by search engine “spiders” (the systems that create the search engine indexes also known as “robots” and “crawlers”)." "It is a protocol, based on existing technologies, to communicate permissions and licences in a machine-readable way. In future it will be extended to cover other types of users (including potentially end-users) and content (including video and audio). ACAP is not DRM. It does not technically prevent access and use. However it is capable of operating alongside DRM solutions. But (particularly in a business-to-business relationship) it should not be necessary to resort to technical enforcement – or the courts." You can find more at http://www.the-acap.org. It is said to change the way content is shared, indexed and accessed in the internet. Though at this stage (it is in beta stage) there seems to be some problems. You can find about them here: http://www.itwire.com/content/view/17206/53/1/0/ http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/skeptical-look-at-acap.ars Any thoughts on this? 2 2008-08-29T17:33:53Z 0 2008-08-30T15:28:38Z true 23690 false 19689 2008-08-30T15:28:38Z Kolkata true 2009-02-28T00:00:00Z false automated-content-access 1 2008-08-30T15:28:38Z 19689