This is just one of many annotation system issues.

Moderation

Moderation is the issue of deciding who can do what to the original document and its corresponding annotations.

When can the the original document be annotated? The following possibilities come to mind:

At will: The original document author has no say in whether the original document is annotated. Mosaic personal annotations are of this variety.
By Solicitation: The original document can only be annotated if the document author makes it available; otherwise, no annotations.

Who can remove an annotation? The following possibilities come to mind:

Nobody: The annotation is permanent and immutable.
The original document owner.: There would be document to annotate if the original document owner did not make it available on a server. So maybe it is reasonable ideal to give the document owner some extra privileges when it comes to annotations. Conversely, it might not be a good idea to allow the original document owner to remove all critical annotations.
The annotation owner: Since they wrote the annotation in the first place, it might be a good idea to let them remove it if they change their mind.
A moderator: An independent agent might decide whether or not a particular annotation is worth retaining.

What are we going to do about `Web Spamming', the attachment of gratuitous annotations to documents?

What else is missing?

This file, version 1.2 of moderation.html, was last updated at 21:14:29 on 95/09/15.