[cap-talk] Unestos paper notes (was: Re: More Heresey: ACLs not inherently bad)

[John Carlson]

>
> I found this paper interesting enough that I'll share some notes  
> from reading (sequential and loosely edited - be forewarned):
>
> 1.  "A first approximation of a POLP-friendly system is one based on  
> capabilities, discussed in Section 3. Though capabilities have  
> historically flummoxed application designers, we present a more  
> familiar interface, based on the Unix file system."

I was on IRC the other day on a channel discussing the development of  
OGP, and one of the people there was moaning about caps.  I'm not sure  
if they were an application designer, but they seemed mildly annoyed  
at the "complexity."

Proxies are annoying, perhaps.

John