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

[Rob Meijer]

On Tue, June 16, 2009 18:52, Karp, Alan H wrote:
> 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.

Not 'shared', 'shared implicitly'. I hope we can at least agree that the
essence of why ambient authority is a problem (regardless of the specifics
of the definition) , lies in the fact that it is implicitly shared
authority.