[cap-talk] Petnames versus E-order with ocaps

[Mark Miller]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Mark Miller <erights at gmail.com> wrote:
> [2] In CapTP as implemented by Kevin Reid in E on E-on-CL, he is
> either already doing or planning to do something similar in
> functionality to the WormholeOp
> <http://www.erights.org/elib/distrib/captp/WormholeOp.html> but more
> modular. The net effect is similar to the WormholeOp in that VatB
> receives VatA, as part of the serialization of the reference to Carol,

"receives *from* VatA, ..."

> the remaining unacknowledged encrypted traffic that VatA still needs
> to deliver to VatC. This includes at least all prior messages from
> Alice to Carol. So long as this traffic gets delivered to VatC
> somehow, VatB can then redeem the reference to Carol that Alice sent,
> without demoting it from resolved to unresolved. Since VatB is not
> able to deliver this traffic, he is willing to accept this situation.

"Since VatB is *now* able to..."

Sigh. Why didn't my spell corrector catch those? The WormholeOp
wouldn't have made any sense as described.

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    --MarkM