[cap-talk] What sustained interest in capabilities

[Stiegler, Marc D]

> Are there actually any top-to-bottom projects out there?
> By that I mean a single project that claims it is going to 
> integrate or produce everything from a kernel all the way to 
> a user's desktop environment based on caps with atleast all 
> the lower system level being verified. 


> If this doesn't exist, shouldn't we create such a project?

Only if your are microsoft. No one else could afford a project of this scale. This would be a project equivalent to combining the Linux open source effort, the GNOME open source effort, a bunch of the separate device driver open source efforts, the Xwindows open source effort, and (since the browser is now a part of the trusted computing base) the Firefox open source effort. This would be too big a project to succeed, unless the components were so loosely couple that, indeed, they were for all intents and purposes separate efforts anyway.



--marcs