>>>>> "NH" == Norman Hardy <norm@agorics.com> writes:
NH> I talked briefly with Markm yesterday about his conversations with NH> others about our capability concepts.
NH> Reflecting on this later it occurred to me that we may not say, or say NH> often enough, that capabilities must be the only naming scheme on the NH> system level! NH> I went back to my glossary NH> <http://www.mediacity.com/~norm/CapTheory/Glossary.html#What.html> andNH> found that my brief intro could be read as allowing capabilities to be NH> but one way of designating objects.
When I checkd that page it ended with the entry "Virtual".
NH> I changed it but I have not figured out how to say what I want without NH> sounding overly dogmatic.
NH> I think that we agree that all sucessful capability systems "bottom NH> out" in capabilities as names.
Hmm, how does that go together with, say, password capabilities? They consist of a UID and a password. The UID take by itself names an object.
Or am I missing something?
Gernot
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