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One way to use a registry is to vette the code it references. Discovery isn't necessary but that is one alternative. It is tough to automate away the need to inspect and test, and unless one is willing to use boilerplate language at a very large scale, contracts always require human eyes. Natural language is tricky. If one gets into automated contracts, then RDF is a good bet. I took up the problems of Golems (say agents with both vested authority and power) in a paper published by the MIT press two years ago. That journal, unfortunately, isn't available. The discovery challenge for authorized agents is the same as for the humans; negotiation of authorized terms where the owner of the agent must determine the negotiatble articles. Hairy stuff. len From: roger.day@g... [mailto:roger.day@g...] If, instead of matching bits on the wire, the, uh, fraternising object models used a discovery mechanism which is good enough to encapsulate "policy" as well as the aforementioned bits, then this discovery mechanism might answer some of your questions. In other words, we invest the discovery mechanism with some degree of in abstentia authority to discover objects it trusts to use and it trusts to be used by. This "usage" is in the legal and the mechanistic senses.
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