[cap-talk] Declaring a victory

[Norman Hardy]

On 2007 Aug 12, at 6:10 PM, Jed Donnelley wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Norman Hardy <norm at cap-lore.com>
> Date: Sunday, August 12, 2007 4:46 pm
> Subject: Re: [cap-talk] Declaring a victory
> To: jed at nersc.gov, "General discussions concerning capability  
> systems." <cap-talk at mail.eros-os.org>

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>
>> I think the magic of Horton is being able to say (and mean) to
>> another agency:
>>    Do your magic on this here thing, (but I will have a record of
>> what it is that you have done.)
>
> I agree, though I might word it a bit differently.  From my  
> perspective
> Horton allows us to inject any policy we wish at points where there
> is an explicit delegation of responsibility from one "principle" to
> another.  We can choose to simply log it, we can later revoke
> such a delegation, we can put in policies like "don't delegate"
> or "don't delegate outside this group", etc.
>
Indeed I was too brief.