Hi, Here's the list of design goals I promised, sorted by priority. The goals mentioned are the ones that came up in the discussion (at least the ones I could still find in the archives), excluding "security". I think most of that one is present via other goals.
stability robustness resource accountability confinement support for most legacy applications persistent sessions for users --------- Anything above this line is essential -------------- confinement with endogenous verification soft real time setting diverse resource distribution policies persistence no ACLs --------- Anything below this line is optional --------------- small memory footprint support for all POSIX applications hard real time So, this list is sorted in three sections. Here's what they mean: We should try very hard to build a system which at least has all the features in the first two sections. If at all possible, we must have those features. The difference between them is that if we find that we cannot achieve a feature from the first section, we should give up and do something else. For the second section, we should just feel miserable and continue without the feature. Features in the third section or optional. They are nice to have (or at least allow to be implemented later), but we can drop them for reasons like "that'll cause too much delay to implement". I want to emphasize that this list is how _I_ feel about it. I think we should decide on a list like this, so we all know what we'll build. Therefore, please send your own personal version (or perhaps better: changes to mine with an explanation if appropriate) to the mailing list. Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://129.125.47.90/e-mail.html
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