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authorTomBachmann <e_mc_h2@web.de>2007-01-11 15:16:36 +0000
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# <a name="Design_Goals"> Design Goals </a>
+## <a name="The_Position_Paper"> The Position Paper </a>
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+_Improving Usability via Access Decomposition and Policy Reļ¬nement_ tries to capture technical objectives. As has been stated by Neal in [2], these are a number of scenarios we are interested in addressing:
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+* security: programs are not users; they should be constrained according to the user's intents
+* resource management
+ * efficiency: facilitate use of local knowledge
+ * soft real-time: expose virtualized resources with useful access case characteristics
+* integration: safe extension of the system
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+## <a name="The_original_list"> The original list </a>
+
These goals have been initially proposed by Bas Wijnen [1]. The list here is a slightly modified form, I tried to incorporate the content of the mailing list discussion. It has to be noted that there is no consensus about this list. There have been objections about both the number of goals stated and specific goals themselves.
## <a name="Essential_Goals"> Essential Goals </a>
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* [1] <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2005-11/msg00037.html>
+* [2] <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/l4-hurd/2007-01/msg00122.html>
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