> Let me explain how Netfrastructure applications use roles
> with a diversion into row level access control. If you're
> only interested in standards compliance, stop reading now.
> You can pick it up again in 5 years.

[big-snip]

Hi Jim,

Thank you very much for that explanation. Most illuminating.

I wont claim to have understood the full implications of it
all yet but I do begin to see how it hangs together. The
diversion into row level access control does make it clearer.

> There is no doubt in my mind that client-server (aka two-
> tiered) applications are dinosaurs that will soon go the
> way of the card punch.

I think that "soon" could be a bit of an overstatement.
There is much more momentum in the industry than there used
to be, it takes much longer for it to change direction.

--
Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing