[cap-talk] Wikipedia: Object-capability model - reference vs. capability?

[Charles Landau]

At 11:43 AM -0800 2/3/07, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>Charles Landau wrote:
>>  By "distinguished by their identity", do you mean keys that can be
>>  distinguished by EQ but not by any other means? I don't think there
>>  are any such keys in KeyKOS.
>>
>>  Since you've used that distinction in KeyKOS, can you give examples?
>
>Two start keys served by the same domain, but with different facet-ids, where
>the serving domain ignores this difference.

Thanks. I had been thinking of primitive keys, but of course the 
system lets you build objects with most any behavior.

At 12:01 AM -0800 2/2/07, Dean Tribble wrote:
>And do you have a term for the kinds of keys that are entirely defined
>(comparable) by their data and those that are distinguished by their
>identity?  That is the "selfless" distinction.

No, in KeyKOS we didn't have a term for that.