ProvenanceAccessScenario

From Provenance WG Wiki

• A user obtains an html document.
• The client software (browser, email client etc.) offers an "Oh yeah?" feature, by which the provenance of the document is accessed.
• Provenance is accessed from the provider site of the document and from a third-party site.
• What does the client do on the button being clicked, what information does it need in order to perform the retrieval, and where does that information come from?
• We should consider that the html document was downloaded from the web or received by email.

Issues to consider:

• Should consider access control over provenance
• Should we say something on the format of provenance
• Could we rephrased without reference to provenance, say it refers to trust
• Should we consider getting the provenance of the whole document or part of it?
• It is out of scope to reconcile potentially conflicting provenance
• should we expand the document type to include non-html documents?