[cap-talk] Collaboration opportunity

Ben Laurie benl at google.com
Fri Jun 10 12:10:06 PDT 2011


On 10 June 2011 19:41, David Barbour <dmbarbour at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 8:33 AM, John Carlson <john.carlson3 at sbcglobal.net
> > wrote:
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>> Might be interesting if your initial set of capabilities
>>
> granted on login were based on a role.
>>
>
> I envision a 'role' being modeled as a registry of capabilities and
> meta-data. Registries can be connected in various ways, and provide
> revocable membranes. A specific user would also be modeled as a registry
> that some administrator has granted some revocable roles.
>
> I would like to be rid of the notion of 'login', at least on any
> per-administration basis.
>

I'm not sure what you mean by this. But in any case, there must surely be a
moment at which I prove to my device that I am me and not some imposter, at
which point my big bag o' capabilities becomes available to me?

Is this not 'login'?


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