[cap-talk] Capability accounting - meta

[Karp, Alan H]

Jed wrote:
> 
> I believe the existence of systems like PayPal argue that an IT 
> "account" model can work in the general Internet world.  The relevant 
> question for me is whether any sort of "capability" mechanism (with a 
> communicable authority token for an account) makes sense, 
> adds value, can work.
> 
We did it for storage in Client Utility and e-speak.  It worked.

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