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

[Karp, Alan H]

Rob Meijer wrote:
> 
> Until this discussion shook up my understanding, the essence of my
> definition was that permissions were SHARED IMPLICITLY in an ambient
> authority system.
>
Whether or not permissions are shared is orthogonal to whether or not they are ambient.

________________________
Alan Karp
Principal Scientist
Virus Safe Computing Initiative
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(650) 857-3967, fax (650) 857-7029
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Alan_Karp