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> `The question is,' said UserAgent, `which is to be master -- > that's all.' " > > That is why web services are "discoverable". If you can find its > schema, you can know if it is likely to fall *before* you do business > with it. You can't tell it to uncross its legs; you can move and > avoid the yolk. Yes, at the end of the day, it boils down to "intelligibility" and hence trust (you wouldn't send your taxes to a babbling idiot, even though we do send patents to such an organization). You *can* build a secure distributed application from trusted components, but the element of trust is crucial. Even in pure capability systems, there have to be trusted components that create the capabilities.
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