[cap-talk] Another "core" principle

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 10:06 -0800, Marc Stiegler wrote:
> 
> Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > If my concern proves to be valid, then the membrane pattern should be
> > rejected -- even if we can make it work from a technical perspective.
>
> Also, I have a design for CapDesk that will allow humans to do membrane 
> revocations that they understand, with understandable consequences, 
> because they get to do the revocations on compositions that are 
> meaningful at the user level. Saying it is of course not half so 
> convincing as doing it...if there ever arises a reason for improving 
> CapDesk that is valuable enough to do so. Perhaps Coyotos will one day 
> need a desktop :-)

Marc: I'ld be very happy to settle for a *description* of the design...

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