[cap-talk] Second ABAC Google talk is now up

[Ian G]

Kenton Varda wrote:
> Yes, the fact that ABAC is just good object-oriented programming has 
> been pointed out before.
> 
> I wonder if renaming the whole concept to "object-oriented security" 
> would make it more intuitive.


Ha!  I would definately agree with the spirit of
this comment :)  Even if someone were to show how
this wouldn't be right, it would be a helpful
description.

And, there may be merit in the term, for marketing
purposes.  "Doing OO security using capabilities..."

> You could describe it as "using encapsulation and data hiding as a 
> secutity mechanism".
> 
> On 7/17/06, *Julien Couvreur* < julien.couvreur at gmail.com 
> <mailto:julien.couvreur at gmail.com>> wrote:
...
>     My suggestion to address this would be to make a parallel with
>     object-oriented programming.

I'd agree, in that capabilities to me is, in very
few words, "OO done more tightly, and extended
out of the language and across net space."

iang