[cap-talk] Beneath Notice Authority was:Capabilities for immutable

[Viswanathan, Kapaleeswaran (HP Labs India)]

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> >(A) if you need a special capability to send a request in order to
> >allocate a message for another capability, you will have an infinite
> >regression. Eventually, there *must* be some authority that is
> >'beneath notice' of capabilities.
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> On 2/26/11 11:23 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
> That is the reason the Gnosis
> family (KeyKOS/EROS/CapROS/Coyotos) all allow allocation
> requests and their results to be entirely processed using the
> registers.

> On  Sun, 06 Mar 2011, Charles Landau wrote: 
More precisely, using registers and read-only memory. The IA32/x86 
architecture has too few registers for even the simplest allocation 
messages.
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Is there a document that provides a comprehensive discussion on this topic (starting from the problem to [one or more] solutions) on the Web?

Thanks. 
Kapali