On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Kerim Aydin<ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > My first instinct is that if any part of the authorization chain that > contains a "permitted by" or other allowing mechanism falls down to > power-0, the chain is broken. But that's a first (or by now second) > instinct. Deciding if the instinct is supported against your careful > argument would make my Head Hurt and require some deep decisions or > new precedents on what delegation is implied or possible by "permitted > by". So I'll undertake Head Hurting iff I judge this.
Well, I believe that if an action is taken "as if" it were a Rule, the most natural assumption is that the hypothetical rule has Power-1, as a Power-0 rule cannot actually exist due to 2141; if we instead pretended that it somehow did have its normal power, I agree it wouldn't work as written. -- -c.
