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@@ -678,8 +678,15 @@ trusted party during a particularly difficult period.
 But even if she disables her inbox, the parties which have existing
 trust relationships with Alice can still message her at no cost.
 
-This document does not specify mechanisms but opens up several
-opportunities.
+While we do not claim that we can fully model a system of consent in
+this system, we can provide the
+/maximum amount of consent that is possible to represent/
+in a system.
+Hopefully that is far enough; it would certainly be better than wha
+we have now.
+
+This document does not specify particular mechanisms but opens up
+several opportunities.
 It is up to the community to decide which routes are considered
 acceptable.
 But the framework for all of this is object capabilities.