LOPT: Security (http://www.w3.org/2000/03/31-LOTP-Security)

It is not yet clear what scope of security is expected to present
in specification. The message is written with assumption that 
security is planned to be integrated with Object Model.

But I would suggest to consider capability based security to be 
considered and offered at least as option or guidelines how to 
implement it using LOPT. 

Good introduction to the capability security concepts is 
http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/capabilityIntro/index.html

Other interesting  place to look about capability based security 
is http://www.caplet.com/security/taxonomy/index.html

Example of distributed architecture based on capability based 
security is "E" that is available at http://www.erights.org

Erlang http://www.erlang.org/ is also using capbility based 
security for distributed applications.

Constantine

Received on Friday, 14 April 2000 07:35:53 UTC