[cap-talk] more terminology discussion, authority, permission, influence

[David Hopwood]

Karp, Alan H wrote:
> Jed wrote:
> 
>> For me this way of using the term "authority" seems to limit it to a rather obscure
>> type of influence, namely that not granted by any explicit permissions.  However, if
>> that is what is intended, I can certainly accept it.
> 
> That is what is intended.

... and it isn't obscure. It's absolutely commonplace -- for example in
client-server systems, permissions to communicate with each server instance
convey different authorities, depending on the server's behaviour and the
permissions it possesses.

-- 
David Hopwood