Capabilities adoption

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, 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.

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 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

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