All we need is better documentation? (Was: [cap-talk] Re: "capabilities" as data vs. as descriptors - OS security discussion, restricted access processes, etc.)

[Valerio Bellizzomi]

On 12/05/2004, at 8.13, Tyler Close wrote:

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>
>I am skeptical of the idea that the mainstream cryptography community 
>just needs better documentation on capability-based security. More and 
>better documentation is certainly a good thing (and there's more that I 
>intend to write), but my experience to date is that many aren't honestly 
>interested in reading the documentation. In one case, a person even said 
>they couldn't see the business case for reading the documentation. I was 
>stunned.
>

If some people is not interested at present, after all it is their life,
don't let them waste our energy. Let's concentrate on who is sincerely
interested and actually make progress.
Eventually the others will be interested later...


Val