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 2tags:
 3  - WIP
 4  - capabilities
 5---
 6Capabilities adoption needs a lot more education and promotion.
 7
 8## Interest in Capabilities
 9
10There are currently three communities that are interested / active in capabilities: [[Local First|Local First]], Crypto/Blockchain, and Capabilities enthusiasts.
11
12![Whiteboard diagram of a Venn overlap of Localfirst, Capabilities, and Crypto Blockchains](/assets/2024/capabilities_venn.jpg)
13
14Academics are broadly interested, as are practitioners in [[Programming Language Theory]] (PLT) and [[Distributed Systems]].
15## List of Groups / Companies / People
16
17![Whiteboard photo of a list of capabilties interested groups](/assets/2024/list_of_groups.jpg)
18
19TODO turn this into a typed list.
20## Capabilities Evolution
21
22![](/assets/2024/capabilties_evolution.jpeg)
23
24E-rights language leads to strict [[Object-capability model]] that Agoric and Spritely are digging into. [[SPKI]] / SDSI / X.509 are [[Certificate capabilities]], which is [[UCAN]] and friends. [[Authomerge]] is a little bit of both.
25## CapCon
26
27When is the right time to have a "Capabilities Conference"?
28
29What do we want to accomplish out of having an in person conference?
30* talks that are recorded
31* discussion about?
32* interop / plug fest
33
34Feels [[Local First|Local First]] and [[Causal Islands]] related. TODO: do a scan of events coming up.
35
36## Resources
37
38[dckc/awesome-ocap](https://github.com/dckc/awesome-ocap)
39 * they currently appear to be quite strict, e.g. don't want to include UCAN