The producer of Fedora content wants to be able to set access conditions that would allow for the following scenarios:

• Content can only be accessed by a specific IP address or list of addresses
• Data streams in the object can have different access conditions. i.e. TIF restricted to a single user, JPG open to the campus, PDF open to the world.
• Curator can set authorization in an external system which Fedora can access.
  
  • EZProxy
  • homegrown authorization systems
• Curator can adjust access conditions per object or for thousands/millions of objects at a time
• Curator can set restrictions on the application permitted to open an object. (focus on born digital for this)
  
  • example: Disk image created for a Mac SE, the curator indicates in the access condition the emulation environment required to open the file.
  • note - I'm not expecting Fedora to enforce the restriction, only to store it.

A programmer can use an API in Fedora that will provide in