[cap-talk] Concrete guidelines for user shell

[Karp, Alan H]

Jed wrote:
> 
> What I believe Alan is describing is a case (which I've never seen
> work, but I believe he has) where all the parties involved agree
> that certain capabilities should not be communicated between
> certain parties (voluntary) and where they make use of a service
> provided by their communication infrastructure to help them
> implement this policy.
> 
A very simple example is posting a document to an internal web site.
Alice can communicate the URL to the document to Bob, but Bob can only
use it if he is inside Alice's firewall.  It's voluntary because Alice
could just send Bob the bits.

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