On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Russell Nelson wrote:
> AARG!Anonymous writes: > > I'd like the Palladium/TCPA critics to offer an alternative proposal > > for achieving the following technical goal: > > > > Allow computers separated on the internet to cooperate and share data > > and computations such that no one can get access to the data outside > > the limitations and rules imposed by the applications. > > Can't be done. I don't have time to go into ALL the reasons. > Fortunately for me, any one reason is sufficient. #1: it's all about > the economics. Complete noise. Not only can it be done, it is being done. Plan 9 has a namespace that is -per processs-, each process is distributed (via a bidding process), and the process owner can be anonymized (though this takes some extension beyond the base OS). http://plan9.bell-labs.com -- ____________________________________________________________________ Conform and be dull......J. Frank Dobie [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ssz.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------