[cap-talk] Resource limitations (was: On revocation...)

[Marcus Brinkmann]

At Sat, 09 Dec 2006 17:18:52 -0800,
Jed Donnelley <capability at webstart.com> wrote:
> I admit to having a rather single minded focus in this area, but I
> believe this sort of focus is appropriate for a list like cap-talk.
> It seems to me that making changes for more explicit control of
> internal table space for servers falls into another area.

I would say it depends.  It's fair enough to focus on different
aspects of capability based design, and one can certainly restrict the
application of capability design patterns to such a narrow set of
domains that resource allocation and certain trust dependencies (eg
which capabilities can be safely invoked to what end) are not a
concern anymore.  But I think it would still be appropriate and
interesting to analyse the actual limits of such contemplations.

You and I have had several points in the discussion now where we
failed to agree on how important a particular design aspect was
because you were considering a distributed network system, while I was
considering an operating system architecture.  I think that if we are
clear on which system we are referring to in the discussion, we can
avoid misapplying the arguments and benefit from knowing about them
even if they are not directly relevant.

If you are saying that cap-talk is only for a specific narrow type of
capability systems, then I will respect that and rather listen than
talk in the future.  In that case, my apologies for the noise.

Thanks,
Marcus