CVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations

From: cvs@openprivacy.org
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 14:00:03 PST

Date: Wednesday December 13, 19100 @ 14:00
Author: burton
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Main CVSWeb: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi

View this module: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations

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Update of /usr/local/cvsroot/openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations
In directory openprivacy.org:/tmp/cvs-serv23527

Modified Files:
        requirements.txt
Log Message:
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File: openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt

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CVSWeb: View this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt?rev=1.33&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

CVSWeb: Diff to previous version: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt.diff?r1=1.33&r2=1.32

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Index: openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt
diff -u openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt:1.32 openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt:1.33
--- openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt:1.32 Wed Dec 13 13:45:04 2000
+++ openprivacy/htdocs/notes/reputations/requirements.txt Wed Dec 13 14:00:02 2000
@@ -1,26 +1,27 @@
 -*- indented-text -*-
 
-$Id: requirements.txt,v 1.32 2000/12/13 21:45:04 fen Exp $
+$Id: requirements.txt,v 1.33 2000/12/13 22:00:02 burton Exp $
 
 Reputation Server Requirements: top level feature list
 
 A. === Definitions ===
 
-An agent
- - can receive requests and return responses (KAB: defined in
- primary-agent-protocol.txt) should be merge it??
+An Agent:
+ - can receive requests and return responses
     - has an internal state and possibly access to an internal datastore
- can examine its state
+ - can examine its state
     - can initiate communications with peers when programmed conditions are met
- - (KAB) communications with an agent will eventually become a new facility.
- Certain agents might in the future have their own language of communication.
-
-A reputation server is an agent that can
+ - Agents generally have a few required XML communications protocols. There
+ may be a few which are required (SOAP responses, faults) and optionally
+ their own specific protocol which can provide application specific
+ functionality.
+
+A Reputation Server is an Agent that can
     respond to reputation requests
     such as 'setReputation(URI, rep)' and 'rep = getReputation(URI)'
     (see UML)
 
-A broker is a reputation server that has added intelligence for some domain
+A Broker is a Reputation Server that has added intelligence for some domain
     Note that a broker may not serve reputation information to others,
     but it needs to be capable of reputation operations to do its work
     (brokers are generally outside the scope of these requirements)

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