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

[Karp, Alan H]

Rob Meijer wrote:
> 
> >From the wikipedia page on ambient authority:
> 
> The authority is "ambient" in the sense that it exists in a broadly
> visible environment (often, but not necessarily a global environment)
> where any subject can request it by name.
> 
> So much for "simply" capabilities available in every scope.
>
I take that as evidence that the definition is flawed.  The essence of my definition is that you don't specify the permissions in an ambient authority system.

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