[cap-talk] User versus Owner (High level dissonance)

[ihab.awad at gmail.com]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Rob Meijer <capibara at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>  Do you feel that I am wrong in wanting the user to be 'just an other
>  active object in the graph subjected to all the normal POLA constrains'?
>  If not so I would be very interested to learn how without the user/owner
>  being made disjunct you would set about doing this.

I suspect you are on to something, but I think you are reifying the
concept of a persistent powerbox. If your goal is to make it possible
for the end-user to act on behalf of diverse interests, such that they
do not "trust themselves" (in some sense) with the assets of one
interest when they are behaving on behalf of another interest, then
that's imho a cool idea. But "user" and "owner" may not be the only --
or even the most parsimonious -- interests to represent.

Ihab

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Ihab A.B. Awad, Palo Alto, CA