Re: "Ambient capabilities"

"Karp, Alan H" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.capabilities.general
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David Nicol wrote:


è Is that important? Must all method calls include a "by what authority" parameter? That seems unusable and in practice would rapidly degenerate into a "try everything in my bag" call wrapper.

A capability both designates a resource and authorizes use of it.  Using the capability to designate the resource means that you don’t need a “by what authority” parameter.

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