[cap-talk] "Who" seen as thorny (was: Defense of Identities, etc.)

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 02:57 +0100, Valerio Bellizzomi wrote:
> On 08/12/2006, at 19.11, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 14:33 -0800, Jed at Webstart wrote:
> >> At 10:01 AM 12/7/2006, Karp, Alan H wrote:
> >> >Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> >> >
> (snip)
> 
> >Part of what I'm saying is that the term "subject" is different from the
> >term "user" for a reason, and it often proves that when we are speaking
> >of "who" what we really need is subject ids rather than user ids.
> 
> Could it be that subject ids are similar to identities and both are
> different from user ids ?
> If so, are subject ids really process ids ?

Subject ids have *always* been process ids. The reason that subject ids
aren't used more actively is a failure of persistence.