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Re: autonomous agents
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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