From: Bill Frantz <frantz@netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 15:56:07 +0800
To: Adam Back <eternity@internexus.net
Subject: Re: autonomous agents
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At 11:25 AM -0800 1/12/98, Adam Back wrote:
>For agents to be able to achieve anything useful, the Java sandbox
>model has to be relaxed to allow the agent to make network connections
>to other than the machine the code was served from.  Java has support
>for this in that signed applications are allowed to make external
>network connections.

The Java security model proposed for version 1.2 (now in some form of beta)
supports this kind of distinction.


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