[cap-talk] caps tried and rejected for AMQP

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> Thanks to David Reid for bringing this to my attention.
> 
> The developers of the popular open source AMQP broker named "RabbitMQ"
> were asked to add access control.  They explored ACLs and caps,
> implemented trial versions of each, and then settled on ACLs.  Here is
> the write-up from one of them:
> 
> http://hopper.squarespace.com/blog/2009/1/22/capabilities-for-messaging.html

Disappointing to see another rejection of capabilities with no better
technical justification than (paraphrasing only slightly)
"it's too hard to change anything".

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