From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/reputations
Date: Tuesday February 6, 19101 @ 15:59
Author: fen
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Main CVSWeb: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi
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Update of /usr/local/cvs/public/openprivacy/htdocs/reputations
In directory giga:/home/fen/projects/openprivacy/htdocs/reputations
Modified Files:
index.shtml
Log Message:
updated with current stuff -- still need to redo this...
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File: openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml
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CVSWeb: Annotate this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml?annotate=1.7
CVSWeb: View this file: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml?rev=1.7&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
CVSWeb: Diff to previous version: http://openprivacy.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cvsweb.cgi/openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml.diff?r1=1.7&r2=1.6
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Index: openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml
diff -u openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml:1.6 openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml:1.7
--- openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml:1.6 Thu Feb 1 18:25:35 2001
+++ openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml Tue Feb 6 15:59:24 2001
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
Every agent within the OpenPrivacy system supports the Reputation Server
Facility, as outlined below.
-<h3><i>from Overview (<a href="/index.shtml">/index.shtml</a>):</i></h3>
+<h3><i>from Overview (<a href="/platform.shtml">/platform.shtml</a>):</i></h3>
<h4>Secure, Privacy-enhanced Reputation Facility</h4>
@@ -27,32 +27,57 @@
<ul>
<li>
+ <b>Reputation:</b>
+ Information that adds subjective depth to an entity. Reputation data
+ can include personal profile information, opinions, and accumulated
+ bias. A reputation must include a unique signature to be valid, but
+ the issuer need not be known nor identifiable
+ Profile data, nyms, brokers and even reputations themselves can accrue
+ <i>reputation capital</i> that has several useful properties:
+ <dl>
+ <dt>
+ <b><i>Secure</i></b>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>Reputations cannot be subverted, and the source of reputation
+ assertions can always be traced. This provides
+ non-repudiation as well as the mechanism with which to decide
+ which reputation information to trust.
+ </dd>
+ <dt>
+ <b><i>Transitive</i></b>
+ </dt>
+ <dd>Reputations are transitive <i>(within the constraints of a
+ well-defined domain)</i>. For example, if A trusts B as a
+ source of local news, and B trusts C for local news, then
+ it could be determined that A trusts C for local news.
+ </dd>
+ </dl>
+ </li>
+ <p>
+ <li>
<b>Reputation Server:</b>
A Reputation Server is an agent that can respond to reputation
- requests such as <tt>setReputation()</tt> and <tt>getReputation()</tt>.
+ requests such as <tt>setReputation()</tt> and
+ <tt>getReputation()</tt>.
+ In addition, reputation servers provide the communications and storage
+ platform for <i>Reputation Calculation Engines</i>.
</li>
<p>
<li>
- <b>Reputation:</b>
- Profile data, nyms, brokers and even reputations can accrue
- <i>reputation capital</i> that has several useful properties:
- <dl>
- <dt>
- <b><i>Secure</i></b>
- </dt>
- <dd>Reputations cannot be subverted, and the source of reputation
- assertions can always be traced. This provides
- non-repudiation as well as the mechanism with which to decide
- which reputation information to trust.
- </dd>
- <dt>
- <b><i>Transitive</i></b>
- </dt>
- <dd>Reputations are transitive, in that if A trusts B who
- trusts C (within the constraints of a well-defined domain),
- then A can reasonably trust C (within that domain).
- </dd>
- </dl>
+ <b>Reputation Calculation Engine (RCE):</b>
+ In order to make full use of the OpenPrivacy platform, use of and
+ calculation with reputations is called for. Human users act as
+ intelligent reputation calculation engines and add value to the system
+ by adding reputations to entities and objects. An automated
+ reputation calculation, part of an <i>infomediary agent</i>, has the
+ ability to:
+ <ul>
+ <li>incrementally refine Reputation/Opinion accumulation into a Bias
+ <li>use Bias to (pre-)calculate responses
+ <li>modify (edit) one's own Bias or create a Bias
+ <li>attach confidence quotient to returned results
+
+ </ul>
</li>
</ul>
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