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

[Toby Murray]

On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:12 -0500, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> 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?
> 

I'll stick with "permitted". Good suggestion.