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

[Rob Meijer]

On Tue, June 16, 2009 01:16, Karp, Alan H wrote:
> 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.
>

Until this discussion shook up my understanding, the essence of my
definition was that permissions were SHARED IMPLICITLY in an ambient
authority system.

Now I am not sure anymore. Hope that Mark will have some time soon to
share with us what the essence of his definition is, and what this means
for "simply capabilities available in every scope".

Rob