[cap-talk] "ambient authority" on wiki.erights.org

[Rob Meijer]

On Thu, June 11, 2009 20:09, Mark Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:47 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood <
> david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:
>
>> Matej Kosik wrote:
>> > What about this:
>> > http://wiki.erights.org/wiki/Ambient_authority
>> > (that page can be deleted by wiki administrator if it is
>> inappropriate)
>>
>> # If a subject can operate on all objects of a given type, we say that
>> # it has ambient authority.
>>
>
> Huh? I am completely confused. What do types have to do with anything?
>

Hmm, possibly the inverse would make some sense though:

"If each subject of a given type can operate on on an object, ..."

Rob.