- Use the issues surrounding HwoPages to crystalize some pertinent notes.
- … gjw needs these too.
- specific Findings, Conclusions & Recommendations specific to these needs include …
- LOG-INs are essential, if different different “Authorities” are required. e.g. …
- Editorial review and control,
- valued membership priviledges that may be incremental to basic access rights.
- Reliable “Trusted” information supported by (at least the ability to have) Attribution of any posted Comments.
- LOG-IN methods need not be intrusive.
- Modern systems tend to use an “email” address as the User’s ID. This has the benefit(s) of …
- Helping the User remember the ID
- Being able to manage the account with less administrative support (e.g. Password changes can be requested, and sent to the ID with reasonable comfort.)
- “Cookies” can be made available to a User to allow them to choose to be automatically recognized based on the computer system(s) they use. Alternatively, Users who do not wish to tolerate cookies, will have to LOG-IN each time they wish to post or edit material.
- Cookies have the additional benefit of automated or manual “expiry” so that they can lapse in the event a “member” looses their access rights (e.g. lapsed memebership and and outstanding dues).
- a bit of the material in HwoPages can be broken out as a MicroBlock.
- Wm:TychoBrahe