[cap-talk] "Comm system"

[James A. Donald]

> > He suggested the term "remoting system". "remoting" is an unfamiliar  
> > term to me, 

It is a familiar term to me.

> > and I'd like to hear others' thoughts on these choices of  
> > terminology.

zooko at zooko.com wrote:
> How about "remote object protocol"?
> 
> This wikipedia page suggets "remote method invocation":

Both of these bring to mind the DCOM disaster.  Painful memories.

In a capabilities system, the important boundary is between processes 
operating message pumps, communicating by streams.  So it should not 
matter much whether you the process you are interacting with is local or 
over the network, except to the extent that one needs to worry about 
latency.

Seems to me that if you need to talk about remoting, you are doing 
something wrong.  The difference between remote and local should be an 
implementation detail