[cap-talk] the value of non-delegatable authority?

[Bill Frantz]

capability at webstart.com (Jed Donnelley) on Sunday, January 13, 2008 wrote:

>while in some object-capability
>systems the authority to return is represented as with all other
>authorities as a capability (e.g. EROS and RATS - what about KeyKOS?)
>and can be delegated.

EROS and KeyKOS are identical in this area.

Cheers - Bill

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