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6 6  |Delegation|//Allow a peer to grant some portion of its authority to another peer (e.g., "you can write to this dataset for 1 day")//
7 7  |Capabilities|//Tokens/objects that embody permissions and can be passed around securely//
8 8  |Revocation|//Ability to withdraw access (essential yet tricky, since there's no central admin)//
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10 -Identity-agnostic control
11 -)))|//Often operations are authorized not by who you are but what capabilities you possess//
12 -|Custom Protocols |Internal term used by Iroh-crew to refer to protocols which are built by joining multiple different components together.
9 +|Identity-agnostic control|//Often operations are authorized not by who you are but what capabilities you possess//
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16 -== Definitions for Architecture ==
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20 -|[[Grassroot System>>https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04391v1]]|A grassroots system is a distributed system that can have multiple instances, independent of each other and of any global resources, that can interoperate once interconnected. Avoids "Singletons"|Examples are Activity Pub, Scuttlebutt
21 -|[[Singleton>>https://handbook.scuttlebutt.nz/stories/design-challenge-avoid-centralization-and-singletons]]|Singletons are networks which relies on being a whole "one" such as DHTs or global blockchains|Scuttlebutt, relates to Grassroot Systems
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27 27  == Definitions for Security and Encryption ==
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29 29  (% border="1" dir="ltr" id="sec_def" style="margin-right:auto" summary="Definitions for Security and Encryption" %)