CVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations

From: cvs@openprivacy.org
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 13:31:59 PST


Date: Monday December 11, 19100 @ 13:31
Author: fen
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Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations
In directory openprivacy.org:/home/fen/projects/openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations

Modified Files:
        requirements.txt
Log Message:
added nym creation

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File: openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt

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Index: openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt
diff -u openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt:1.4 openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt:1.5
--- openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt:1.4 Fri Dec 8 17:40:38 2000
+++ openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt Mon Dec 11 13:31:59 2000
@@ -1,16 +1,25 @@
-$Id: requirements.txt,v 1.4 2000/12/09 01:40:38 fen Exp $
+$Id: requirements.txt,v 1.5 2000/12/11 21:31:59 fen Exp $
 
 Reputation Server Requirements:
 
 === top level feature list ===
 
+Pseudonym (nym) creation and maintenance
+ nyms are created and attached to profile segments to ensure anonymity
+ parent nyms create children nyms for which they may later claim responsibility
+ authentication mechanisms must exist to verify data ownership
+
 Database features (insert, select, delete)
+ define data format specification
     define selection criteria (query) constraints
         provide query mechanisms for standard data mining interfaces
         when and how does this calculation span peer reputation servers?
     define retrieval set format
     define exceptions
     define admin features, such as size, number of objects, etc.
+ some exaple methods:
+ putReputation(object, reputation)
+ rep = getReputation(object) // exception thrown if no reputation found
 
 Object validation
     does the object that was grafted to still exist / has it changed?
@@ -19,8 +28,7 @@
 Sorting, ranking
     results may be returned ranked according to local server rules
     enhance the object with high billing or additional local reputation if:
- the signature/content/object has high reputation according to the
- local agent
+ the signature/content/object has high reputation according to the local agent
 
 Reputation calculation (may require peer communications)
     given an object, return its full reputation
@@ -40,6 +48,19 @@
         if it is found to be too biased, unreliable, or random
     server reputation gain will occur when:
         good results within some particular domain are regularly retrieved
+
+=== ontology / meaning ===
+
+Support reputation by ontology/semantics. Systems can define their own
+vocabulary which can be used to markup reputations. (reputations will try to
+become standardized)
+
+=== security ===
+
+Third parties can not forge opinions or spoof other users
+(since Reputation data is based on public key certificates)
+ http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=00/12/06/0126224&cid=157
+ http://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=perens&op=users
 
 === Optional ===
 



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