- From: Christopher Lemmer Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>
- Date: Sun, 06 Dec 2020 10:25:56 -0500
- To: "Mark S. Miller" <erights@gmail.com>
- Cc: Adrian Gropper <agropper@healthurl.com>, Alan Karp <alanhkarp@gmail.com>, Dominic Wörner <dom.woe@gmail.com>, Kaliya IDwoman <kaliya-id@identitywoman.net>, Wayne Chang <wyc@fastmail.fm>, public-credentials@w3.org
+1, well said. Mark S. Miller writes: > 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. >>
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