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tags:

  • WIP
  • capabilities

Capabilities adoption needs a lot more education and promotion.

Interest in Capabilities#

There are currently three communities that are interested / active in capabilities: [[Local First|Local First]], Crypto/Blockchain, and Capabilities enthusiasts.

Whiteboard diagram of a Venn overlap of Localfirst, Capabilities, and Crypto Blockchains

Academics are broadly interested, as are practitioners in [[Programming Language Theory]] (PLT) and [[Distributed Systems]].

List of Groups / Companies / People#

Whiteboard photo of a list of capabilties interested groups

TODO turn this into a typed list.

Capabilities Evolution#

E-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.

NB, Authomerge is now [[Keyhive]]

CapCon#

When is the right time to have a "Capabilities Conference"?

What do we want to accomplish out of having an in person conference?

  • talks that are recorded
  • discussion about?
  • interop / plug fest

Feels [[Local First|Local First]] and [[Causal Islands]] related. TODO: do a scan of events coming up.

Resources#

dckc/awesome-ocap

  • they currently appear to be quite strict, e.g. don't want to include UCAN