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

[Mark Miller]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 1:20 AM, Rob Meijer <capibara at xs4all.nl> wrote:

I am very sorry that I don't have time to read this thread right now and so
can't comment on any of the substantive issues. But while skimming, the
following caught my eye:

>
> I think we should give Dean & Mark sufficient credit not to have meant
> permission when they meant authority, thus dismissing any definition that
> is a definition of a type of permission.
>

Please don't be so quick to give us this credit. Dean & I coined the term in
reaction to so-called "Netscape Capabilities", which, btw, might be a good
enough counter-example to satify Matej. I came up with the "permission" vs
"authority" split only years later while writing Paradigm Regained.
Substantive issues aside until I have time to think, on historical grounds
alone, there's no reason to expect these terminology choices were made
consistently.

-- 
Text by me above is hereby placed in the public domain

   Cheers,
   --MarkM
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