[cap-talk] Toby's Confused deputy statement (was: Re: Confused deputies in hybrid systems)

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 09:03 +0000, Toby Murray wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 21:31 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> > I believe that by "legal" you mean "all actions that are possible given
> > the permission state that exists at the time of the action". Not to be
> > confused with "all actions that were considered right and proper at the
> > time of the action."
> 
> Indeed. Is there a better term than "legal" for what I'm trying to say
> here?

In the context of a discussion about permissions and access control, I
think "permitted" is the term that we want. For informal use, perhaps
"feasible" provides a suitable informal intuition?


shap