You don't need delegation; it is very useful, though.

[Alan Karp]

from a comment made on a standards email list.

That's not what I think.  I suppose you could avoid needing attenuation by having a separate capability for each possible permission (or worse, combination of permissions), but I don't know how to do responsibility tracking without it.

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Alan Karp

[Mark S. Miller]

Link?

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Some of you know the perpetrator, so I prefer to preserve the person's anonymity.

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