From Objects To Capabilities

[Johan Hanson]

> Phil Nicolaļ wrote:
> 
> Capability-based
> Financial Instruments
> http://www.erights.org/elib/capability/ode/index.html

I would suggest looking at the EROS site for Shapiro's paper about
capabilities in EROS which includes his proof that the EROS
capability model supports "containment".
http://www.eros-os.org/devel/00Devel.html

Norman Hardy also has a (slightly disorganized) site about capabilities:
http://www.cap-lore.com/CapTheory/index.html

For distributed capabilities, the classic reference is Andrew S Tannenbaum's
"Using Sparse Capabilities in a Distributed Object System".
http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/tanenbaum86using.html

I really like capabilities. I use them for a distributed IPC system 
on Unix that I am working on. (albeit slowly)

/ Johan@tiq.com