[cap-talk] Understanding capabilities in a web-desktop setting

[James A. Donald]

Luke A. Guest wrote:
> If an capability URL has a large random string in there, you'll never
> get users to use capability systems; 

urls are already becoming long, incomprehenible, and random looking. 
Thus people almost never type in urls, they just click on things.

We are already coming to use the methods and user interface described by 
Zooko to handle urls - bookmark names, contact names, and link text are 
Zooko's pet names, web page titles and google key words are Zooko's 
nicknames.  Indeed, urls must inexorably become long, arbitrary, 
incomprehensible and random looking, for the reasons explained by Zooko.