Re: Hygiene for a computing pandemic: separation of VCs and ocaps/zcaps

We want a VM / kernel to be a neutral simple predictable framework of
rules, facilitation the ability of diverse, separately interested players
to cooperate while protecting themselves from each other’s misbehavior.

All discretionary judgement should be by diverse players of the system,
none of which are privileged by the system.

The rule of law-like systems.


On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 6:38 PM Christopher Lemmer Webber <
cwebber@dustycloud.org> wrote:

> Christopher Lemmer Webber writes:
>
> > But let's think about why the moving-forward-in-time VM execution is
> > separated from the allegations-of-information retrospective that is
> > "claims" and "credentials".  And it comes down to this phrase:
> >
> > Your VM is dumb.
>
> This might be misread as an insult against whatever virtual machine you
> think I think you're implementing or using.  It isn't; it's actually
> kind of arguing that we embrace this as a feature; the virtual machine
> doesn't know about and doesn't care about making
> identity-judgement-reasoning calls as it runs.  But things that do can
> *hook into* the system, as entry and exit points.
>
> Hope that's clearer.
>
-- 
  Cheers,
  --MarkM