From: David Wagner <daw@cs.berkeley.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 00:17:00 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [e-lang] Naming Capability Systems

Tyler Close wrote:
>Do you have any evidence that a group has written you off because
>they thought capabilities are the same as ACLs?

My fear is that the majority of the security community might have
this reaction.  Do you consider this unlikely? tyler shap 

>How can I explain that Lampson simply misunderstood the term
>"capability" if you go and define his use to be correct?

You misunderstand the proposal.  The proposal never was to define the
bare term "capability" to refer to the kind of system Lampson described. 
Rather, the proposal was to use the term "ambient-authority capability
system" (or "ambient authorities", or some other such adjectivized term)
to refer to the kind of system Lampson described. tyler
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