Hi Luchesar, All,

On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 18:34 +0300, Luchesar V. ILIEV wrote: 
> Folks,
> 
> I'd like to gradually start discussion on several points that seems to
> be needing specific attention. Let's start with the anonymous or guest
> user.
Good point.

> 
> 1. Let's decide on the exact username: "anonymous" or "guest". I have
> slight preference for the first one, because "guest" somehow implies
> more restricted access -- however, that user is supposed to access ALL
> public data, not, for instance, only some "demo" excerpts.

I also prefer anonymous. 

> 
> 2. What about the password? Should it be just "blank" one? Or
> something like "opentox". Or even user's e-mail address, FTP-style
> (however, this one might be difficult to implement, as it is unlikely
> to be supported by OpenSSO/Plone)?

I think in the IT world anonymous + blank is pretty common. 

Cheers
Tobias

> 
> 3. Once the exact username and password are decided, it might make
> sense to finally enter the user into Plone's database, so that we can
> start testing.
> 
> 4. Let's not forget that at some point of time we should create
> policies for ALL existing public resources that grant "read" (GET, but
> sometimes also POST) access for that user.
> 
> 5. If any type of quotas are implemented, even if with the intention
> to just protect a service from being overloaded, obviously the
> "anonymous" or "guest" user would need special treatment.
> 
> Cheers,
> Luchesar
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