[cap-talk] Some good advice for disruptive technologies

[Karp, Alan H]

David Barbour wrote:
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> I hope you're having success!

Some.  The State of California Health and Human Services Privacy Board has adopted ZBAC (basically using SAML authorization assertions as capabilities) for dealing with consulting physicians.  Also, NSA was interested enough to fund a study comparing ZBAC to ABAC (Attribute-Based) access control, which showed a 60:1 performance advantage for ZBAC as well as easier fine-grained sharing.
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> Platform technologies are difficult to sell because no
> individual wishes to absorb the costs of driving the
> adoption, nor the risks of being the only to adopt.
>
What I'm selling is a use case, not a platform.  If people ask me how I would implement it, then I tell them about the platform.  Some have asked, many have not.

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