[cap-talk] What Horton cannot do? (Was: mailkey: transfer of accountability...)

[Karp, Alan H]

Rob Meijer wrote:
> 
> It may be just semantics, but would it not be relevant to distinguish
> between the Alice 'entity' and the Alice 'namespace' (from the invoked
> object (Carol?) point of view that is)?
> Without any 'further' information on Bob, Bob would have to 
> be considered
> Alice::Bob by the invoked object, and as long as it can be shown that
> Alice::Bob != Alice, abuse by Alice::Bob would be accountable to
> Alice::Bob
> as an entity within the Alice name space rather than to the 
> Alice entity
> IMO. You could than say that if at a later time it is shown that for
> example
> Alice:Bob == Dick::Bob, bob could be lifted from the Alice 
> name space to
> the local name space, removing accountability for usage (not for
> delegation) from the Alice name space.
> 
This paragraph is a precise statement of on of the points I was trying
to make.  The only correction I have is that I used the word "entity" as
the thing that controls the fire alarm because that's the term James
Donald used in his example.

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