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   than they are ocaps), so the name "object capability" was chosen to
   distinguish between the two.
 
-** Ocaps meet human relationships
+** Ocaps meet social relationships (or: just in time authority)
+
+Some systems that try to confine authority today are called "sandboxes".
+If you have had experience with present-day sandboxes, you might be
+skeptical, based on those experiences, that an ocap type system will work.
+That would be understandable; in many such systems a user has to
+pre-configure all the authority that a sandboxed process will need before
+the process even starts up.
+Almost inevitably, this authority doesn't end up being enough.
+Time and time again, the user opens the sandboxed process only to find that
+they have to "poke another hole" in the system.
+Eventually they let too much authority through; out of frustration, the
+user might simply pass through nearly everything.
+
+Thankfully, ocaps don't have this problem.
+Unlike many traditional sandbox systems, we can pass around references
+whenever we need them... authority can be handed over "just in time".
+
+This is less surprising if we consider the way passing around ocap
+references resembles the way people develop social relationships.
+If Alice knows Bob and Alice knows Carol, Alice might decide it is
+useful to introduce Bob to Carol.
+We see this all the time with the way people exchange phone numbers
+today.
+"Oh, you really ought to meet Carol!  Hold on, let me give you her
+number!"
+
+#+BEGIN_CENTER
+[[file:./static/granovetter.png]]
+
+/One of the Granovetter Diagrams shown in [[http://erights.org/elib/capability/ode/index.html][Ode to the Granovetter Diagram]]./
+/Pardon the geocities-era aesthetic./
+#+END_CENTER
+
+In fact, thinking about such social relationships have long been at
+the heart of ocap systems.
+One of the most famous (and informative) ocap papers is one called
+[[http://erights.org/elib/capability/ode/index.html][Ode to the Granovetter Diagram]] (a truly remarkable paper which shows
+how many complicated systems, including basic money and financial
+transaction infrastructure, can be modeled on ocaps).
+In this paper "Granovetter Diagrams" such as the above are introduced,
+showing how ocaps flow through a system by social introductions.
+In fact the above diagram is pretty much exactly the same as our phone
+number exchange... "Alice is sending Bob the message =foo=, which
+contains a reference to Carol, and now Bob has been introduced to /
+has access to Carol."
+
+It turns out that Granovetter Diagrams have their origin in sociology,
+from a famous paper by Mark S. Granovetter named
+[[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124424500500250][The Strength of Weak Ties]].
+It's good news that much of thinking about ocaps has been based on
+how human relationships develop in sociology, since we are now about
+to use them to build a robust social network.
 
 * How to build it
 ** Ocaps we can use in our protocols