Delegation

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Delegation allows the owner of access to a resource to give some subset of that ability to another party.

The wiki page is focused on the need for a digital entity on the web to give some other party the ability to exercise some of the capability to some other digital entity.
In the case of human users the web they will have a User Agent through which they can express their intents on the web.
Some examples of delegation include:
- A manager goes on vacation and provide with a temporary replacement the ability to control access to the division web site repository.
- A person is declared unfit to manage their affairs by a court of competent jurisdiction and a guardian is appointed.
- A parent and a child have the reversed case where the parent gives the child some ability to visit web sites are have age restrictions.
- The president of the United States goes into surgery and passes control of the nuclear deterrent to the vice president.
- A husband and wife give each other to make medical decisions for them with a defined set of limitations.
- I add medical conditions to may smartphone so that any authorized EMT can view them if i am found comatose.