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

[Mark Miller]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Karp, Alan H <alan.karp at hp.com> wrote:

> I don't think any of the definitions I've seen so far capture what to me is
> the essential nature of ambient authority, the separation of designation
> from authorization.  I think the following captures that point.
>
> "A system in which the submitter of a request does not specify which
> permissions to apply to the request is said to use ambient authorities."
>

I like that too!

I'd change to "...which of its permissions to apply...".


>
> I'm not sure if "does not" should be "need not" or "must not."
>

Hmmm. I'm not sure either. I think I like "does not" best, but I'm not sure
I can say why.


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   Cheers,
   --MarkM
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