[cap-talk] OO interoperation via OCap, presentation level issues

[Karp, Alan H]

>
> Is there no way to describe the essential and core
> capability concept and to provide for communication
> of capabilities between different systems (language
> or OS) without getting drawn into issues such as the
> synchrony of the communication and the presentation
> of the data parameters?
>
Not unless you define a means to bootstrap the process or a means to negotiate these things.  The initial Client Utility protocol had such a bootstrap mechanism.  Negotiation was simple, "Initiator makes right."

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