[cap-talk] Capability Semantics, email

[Jed at Webstart]

At 03:49 AM 7/26/2006, Ian G wrote:
>David Hopwood wrote:
> > Jed at Webstart wrote:
>
> >> I can understand an emphasis on http, but I think at least email
> >> must be included.  At present it seems that email is nearly (absolutely?)
> >> the only means for individual domain to domain (e.g. person to
> >> person) communication.  Without the ability to safely send
> >> capabilities in email, it's difficult for me to see how any richer
> >> object based sharing structure can be built up.
>
>My own view on this is that email is unsaveable.
>It won't be fixed, it won't die but it will be
>supplanted by other tools.

Heh.  I've been using email heavily for over 30 years now.  I'd be quite
surprised to see it supplanted significantly even over the next 10 years.
Even if it is replaced by other tools over time, it's clear to me that any
such tools will have comparable semantics.  I need to be able to send
you a message and I need to be able to include permission tokens
in any such message - safely.

--Jed http://www.webstart.com/jed/