[cap-talk] capabilities for networking

[Stiegler, Marc D]

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> [mailto:cap-talk-bounces at mail.eros-os.org] On Behalf Of John Carlson
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:22 AM
> To: General discussions concerning capability systems.
> Subject: [cap-talk] capabilities for networking
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> Is there a potential to use capabilities for networking,
> such that a user has a capability to use a certain
> amount of bandwidth, or use certain links, and
> this right can be shared with others?

Certainly. For example. In E, the url-maker is an unsafe authority,
i.e., not a part of the safe scope. So by default, objects have no
authority to speak to any urls, or sockets, or anything associated with
the network. I can hand a particular url object to another object, or a
forwarder to a url object that has limitations such as, "only allowed to
write 1k of data to this url per second". 

--marcs