[cap-talk] Concening entry "ambient authority" in Wikipedia

[Matej Kosik]

Fellows,

I have some doubts concerning the article "ambient authority" in
Wikipedia. Do you think it contains a useful text? Imagine that you do
not know what this term means, do you think that the text will help you
to understand it? I have some doubts.

Cannot it simply state that:

"A subsystem is said to have *ambient authority* when, if we want to
determine its authority, we cannot rely on rules defined by
object-capability security model."

Does everybody agree?

The article then can continue with some examples.

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This definition will then be as comprehensible as the "object-capability
security model" but I think this is fair because these terms are "mostly
complementary". Improved definition of the latter improves the
definition of the former.

I think that it is also fair to expect that people which are not
interested in object-capability security model won't be interested in
using the term "ambient authority".