[cap-talk] Domain change (IPC?) overhead

Mark Miller erights at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 13:20:20 EDT 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Mark Miller <erights at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Space accounting is needed for availability, and therefore E can only
>  help defend availability between mutually suspicious vats.

Availability can only be protected at a middle range of granularities
starting from something process- or vat-like, to something like a
corporate campus. Beyond corporate campus granularity, domain crossing
happen by messages over unreliable open networks, for which
availability can only be imperfectly defended at best.

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 Cheers,
 --MarkM


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