Merge pull request #520 from httpwg/mnot-493

Introductory text for 'authoritative access'

draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-latest.xml

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 </section>
 
 <section title="Authoritative Access" anchor="authoritative.access">
+<t>
+   Authoritative access refers to dereferencing a given identifier,
+   for the sake of access to the identified resource, in a way that the client
+   believes is authoritative (controlled by the resource owner). The process
+   for determining that access is defined by the URI scheme and often uses
+   data within the URI components, such as the authority component when
+   the generic syntax is used. However, authoritative access is not limited to
+   the identified mechanism.
+</t>
+<t>
+   <xref target="origin"/> defines the concept of an origin as an aid to
+   such uses, and the subsequent subsections explain how to establish a
+   peer's association with an authority to represent an origin.
+</t>
 <t>
    See <xref target="establishing.authority"/> for security considerations
    related to establishing authority.