KIP-1042 — Implementation of a GLOB Pattern type for ACL pattern matching.

Discussion Security

Proposes a GLOB ACL pattern type for Kafka's StandardAuthorizer that supports wildcard characters (* and ?) for matching topic and group names, complementing the existing LITERAL and PREFIXED types. Organizations with many topics following non-prefix-based naming patterns (e.g., country-code prefixes or environment suffixes) require large numbers of LITERAL or PREFIXED ACLs to achieve equivalent access control.

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