[cap-talk] ... enforcement - hope? Capabilities as clumsy, not

[David Wagner]

Ben Laurie writes:
>Why not? Use a namespace that encapsulates the swiss number (a term I 
>haven't seen for a while, is it out of fashion? Where did it come from 
>anyway?) of the capability. Done, surely?

Do *you* want to type
  $ cp 09234090912097134087 1209012431091230981
I don't!

A common reason to have a level of indirection -- to have names -- is
to make them easier to manipulate, meaningful to a human, and/or to impose
structure.