[cap-talk] In Defense of Identities - really not

[Mark Miller]

On 12/6/06, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com> wrote:
> It doesn't. It won't. That's deliberate, and in the context of OpenCM it
> makes sense. MarkM went down this rathole with me years ago, and
> reluctantly concluded that the choices we made in OpenCM were better
> than capability semantics for this application.


The basis for this reluctant conclusion was a stated need to meet
bureaucratically mandated auditing requirements that, as far as I
could tell, were not technically coherent. In the end, I failed to
understand the requirements, and so had no basis for objection, and
reluctantly gave up.

In any case, once I post the proof-of-concept responsibility-tracking
protocol, I would like to revisit that discussion.


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    Cheers,
    --MarkM