- From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
- Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2018 17:42:14 -0400
- To: Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@lifewithalacrity.com>
- Cc: Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>, Credentials Community Group <public-credentials@w3.org>
Christopher Allen writes: > On Sat, Nov 3, 2018 at 4:27 PM Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> > wrote: > >> shortened to "zCaps" for the cool kids in the community. >> > > I am -1 for zCaps as a short. Adding z to things lately has been marketing > speak for zero-knowledge, which ocap is not. And over hyped. > > -- Christopher Allen FWIW, the name "zcap" was inspired by Alan Karp's use of "ZBAC" as a term (intentionally contrasted to RBAC) to inform companies that didn't understand what ocaps were or what domain they might want to apply them to.
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