[cap-talk] Capabilities giving up control?

[David Hopwood]

Jed Donnelley wrote:
[...]
> I really think the sense in which we have been using
> "authority" on this list (sorry MarkM) is an entirely
> different concept.  Namely the closure of what sort
> of access can be obtained by using all available
> permissions.  Sadly, I don't think this fits very
> well with the human social notion of "authorize",
> e.g. (from:
> http://www.thefreedictionary.com/authorize ):

Please let's not redefine terms in mid-argument. MarkM's choice
of "authority" to mean the transitive closure of available
permissions will do fine for the time being; it's concise, useful,
and no less well-chosen than many other technical terms.

-- 
David Hopwood