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

David Wagner daw at cs.berkeley.edu
Mon Jun 15 13:35:32 EDT 2009


Rob Meijer wrote:
>After this, we need to look at some border cases that apparently are
>subject to different interpretation with respect to if they should be
>classified as ambient authority or not:
>
>A Static authority (as in static authority carrying variables in OO)
>B Authority through ambient available proxies.
>C Authority through designating proxy permission to a proxy with ambient
>  authority.

Thanks for these helpful examples.  If I got a choice, I'd want
A and B to be included as examples of the anti-pattern, but not C.


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