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Scenario: Granting Service Access to a Photo Set (Pending)
Submitted by: Eve Maler
@@TBS: This differs in nature from the calendar scenario in that it gets into more OAuth-flavored situations and issues...
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Today, many Web 2.0 services are beginning to offer users features that depend on connections with other third-party services, using OAuth to forge the connection. A classic example is configuring your photo-hosting site to use some other photo-printing site to print your photos. Whereas the Sharing a Calendar with Vendors scenario primarily focuses on sharing data whose "substance" (your calendar entries) vendors then "consume" to give you interesting service, this scenario primarily focuses on granting service access to other services in order to get combinatorial effects from the service features themselves.
In this scenario, access to photos is shared with other services that can do interesting things with them, in such a way as to allow permissioning and auditing from a central location rather than wherever the photos are hosted. Since it is just as likely that multiple photos might want to be subjected to this treatment as a single photo would be, we'll assume a set of them. Each third-party service is intended to be granted access separately, on possibly unique terms.
This scenario is a bit similar to the Sharing a Calendar with Vendors circumstance in which calendars are shared with Dopplr and TripIt.
Following are some motivating circumstances in which photo access may make sense. (NOTE: All references to real vendors are hypothetical.)
- Making a feed or stream of photos available for printing and mailing to a recipient
This situation is based on that described in item #8 (alternative) of the photo-sharing scenario from the IIW8 Use Case Selection and Metrics session in May 2009: "Grandma doesn't do stuff online, but subscribes to a service that prints and sends her photos. Peter wants to give printing/sending access rights to the service." You, as the photo owner, may want to commit the printing service not to use or further share the photos beyond this task, and may want to audit their periodic retrievals of photos for printing and mailing.
- Using a service that creates photo thumbnails and other reduced-size versions
In this case, you are giving "read" access to your photos, but also "write" access to hold the results of the processing. This is perhaps similar to the way some OAuth-connected location services can either read your location from, or write your location to, each other.
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