[cap-talk] Historical note (was: Boebert Farber paper reference?)

[Mark S. Miller]

Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> At Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:06:34 -0800,
> Jed at Webstart wrote:
>>                                          However, I agree the
>> Landwehr and Kain paper (e.g.:
>>
>> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/kain87access.html
>>
>> ) seems to me is an important reference to have in the Capability Myths paper.
> 
> MarkM and Jonathan do address this in "Paradigm Regained: Abstraction
> Mechanisms for Access Control."  It is not clear to me that this paper
> necessarily supersedes Capability Myths, however, as its focus it
> different.


Paradigm Regained does not supersede Myths. But it is meant to answer the 
objections raised about Myths. Curious historical note: Someone I respect 
tremendously, and that understands the cap perspective, read Myths, liked it, 
read the reviews, and insisted Boebert was right. He and I had a long argument 
in which I failed to convince him. It was clear to me that I had encountered 
the root misunderstanding behind some of the Myths, but I didn't know what it 
was.

I spent that night sleepless, chewing on our argument, trying to identify our 
misunderstanding. I finally put my finger on the distinction I later named 
"permission" vs "authority", giving birth to Paradigm Regained.

So perhaps it's appropriate to view Paradigm Regained as the prequel to 
Capability Myths Demolished.

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Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain

     Cheers,
     --MarkM