[vos-d] Capabilities for access control (break out from "status and scheming" thread)

[Reed Hedges]

Karsten Otto wrote:

 > VOS has something similar, although this mechanism is rarely used at
 > the moment. You can "log in" to a site to get an "identity", and
 > certain vobjects may have access control lists that refer to known
 > identities.
 >
 > I.e., your overlays seem to be more like capabilities, VOS identities
 > + ACLs are similar to the traditional object-based UNIX access
 > control. If so, I tend to agree with you - a capabilities-based
 > access control is propably more suited for highly frequented worlds
 > that do not know every individual user.

I think Peter is thinking about changing access control to be 
capabilities oriented in s5, though that would come after finishing all 
the object management and messaging stuff.

Reed