From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/notes
Date: Tuesday February 27, 19101 @ 23:01
Author: fen
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Log Message:
tightened up format of definitions (thanks again, elaine!)
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</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
- <!-- $Id: whitepaper.shtml,v 1.28 2001/02/28 06:22:10 fen Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: whitepaper.shtml,v 1.29 2001/02/28 07:01:11 fen Exp $ -->
<h1>OpenPrivacy - Building a Better Internet</h1>
@@ -364,92 +364,89 @@
also financially.
</p>
</blockquote>
- <h2>References</h2>
+ <h2><a name="references">References</a></h2>
<blockquote>
<h3>Definitions</h3>
- <blockquote>
- <dl>
- <dt><li><b>Reference</b></dt>
- <dd>
- A pointer to an entity (generally a URI, often a URL). Examples
- include a physical or virtual object, place, person, pseudonym,
- web page or site, opinion, reputation, bias, profile, and
- reputation calculation engine.
- </dd>
- <p>
- <dt><li><b>Nym</b></dt>
- <dd>
- Short for "pseudonym," a nym is a fictitious name that can refer
- to an entity without using any of its directly identifiable
- characteristics, such as name, location, etc. OpenPrivacy uses
- public-key pairs to represent a nym, with the owner having sole
- access to the private part and the public part being published
- to at least one external party. Often, we refer to the public
- key as the "nym," as it is how the entity is know in the outside
- world.
- </dd>
- <p>
- <dt><li><b>Principal</b></dt>
- <dd>
- An identifiable, pseudonymous, or anonymous entity. A principal
- can be uniquely referenced by its public key. Any static entity
- that can be referenced can in theory be a principal, the only
- requirement being that it can store a private key and perform
- signature operations.
- </dd>
- <p>
- <dt><li><b>Opinion</b></dt>
- <dd>
- A unique description of something (pointed to by a reference).
- Uniqueness is satisfied by attaching a hash, generally created
- from the pricipal's signature, to the opinion such that no two
- opinions are exactly the same. An opinion may be clearly
- subjective (as in "openssl is a good cryptography package") or
- appear as a statement (as in "I live in San Francisco," where
- the reference is "San Francisco" and the description is "where I
- live").
- </dd>
- <p>
- <dt><li><b>Reputation</b></dt>
- <dd>
- A value that represents the collective opinion of some
- reference. A Reputation is really just another name for an
- Opinion, as it is the calculated opinion of the reference by the
- reputation calculation engine. Reputations are ephemeral, and
- the weight applied to an Opinion representing the reputation of
- some reference is subjectively applied by the end user (person
- or program) that requests it.
- </dd>
- <p>
- <dt><li><b>Bias</b></dt>
- <dd>
- While reputations generally reflect the sum of many opinions of
- a single reference, a bias is an accumulation of opinions that
- represent the views of a single principal. Biases may be
- divided by area or type of reference (such as groups of
- political or demographically descriptive opinions). A RCE uses
- one or more Bias collections in the couse of its calculations.
- </dd>
- <p>
- <dt><li><b>Offer Template</b></dt>
- <dd>
- A set of seemingly disparate opinions can be grouped together
- (in a bias-like structure) for the purpose of finding
- best matches in a universe of unconnected data. A reputation
- service that receives an offer template may advertise prizes for
- parent nyms that can validate ownership of a subset of the
- template.
- </dd>
- <p>
- <dt><li><b>Profile</b></dt>
- <dd>
- A collection of pseudonymous opinions (also in a bias-like
- structure) that an entity claims that it can prove belong to a
- single (parent) entity. (The proof itself is called
- <i>validation</i>.)
- </dd>
- </dl>
- </blockquote>
+ <ul>
+ <li><b>Reference:</b>
+ A pointer to an entity (generally a URI, often a URL). Examples
+ include a physical or virtual object, place, person, pseudonym,
+ web page or site, opinion, reputation, bias, profile, and
+ reputation calculation engine.
+ </li>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>Nym:</b>
+ Short for "pseudonym," a nym is a fictitious name that can refer
+ to an entity without using any of its directly identifiable
+ characteristics, such as name, location, etc. OpenPrivacy uses
+ public-key pairs to represent a nym, with the owner having sole
+ access to the private part and the public part being published
+ to at least one external party. A long-lived nym is useful in
+ that it allows for trust (or "reputation") to accumulate over
+ time and usage. Often, we refer to the public key as the "nym,"
+ as it is how the entity is know in the outside world.
+ </li>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>Principal:</b>
+ An identifiable, pseudonymous, or anonymous entity. A principal
+ can be uniquely referenced by its public key. Any static entity
+ that can be referenced can in theory be a principal, the only
+ requirement being that it can store a private key and perform
+ signature operations.
+ </li>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>Opinion:</b>
+
+ A unique description of something (pointed to by a reference).
+ Uniqueness is satisfied by attaching a hash, generally created
+ from the pricipal's signature, to the opinion such that no two
+ opinions are exactly the same. An opinion may be clearly
+ subjective (as in "openssl is a good cryptography package") or
+ appear as a statement (as in "I live in San Francisco," where
+ the reference is "San Francisco" and the description is "where I
+ live").
+ </li>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>Reputation:</b>
+ A value that represents the collective opinion of some
+ reference. A Reputation is really just another name for an
+ Opinion, as it is the calculated opinion of the reference by the
+ reputation calculation engine. Reputations are ephemeral, and
+ the weight applied to an Opinion representing the reputation of
+ some reference is subjectively applied by the end user (person
+ or program) that requests it.
+ </li>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>Bias:</b>
+ While reputations generally reflect the sum of many opinions of
+ a single reference, a bias is an accumulation of opinions that
+ represent the views of a single principal. Biases may be
+ divided by area or type of reference (such as groups of
+ political or demographically descriptive opinions). A RCE uses
+ one or more Bias collections in the couse of its calculations.
+ </li>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>Offer Template:</b>
+ A set of seemingly disparate opinions can be grouped together
+ (in a bias-like structure) for the purpose of finding
+ best matches in a universe of unconnected data. A reputation
+ service that receives an offer template may advertise prizes for
+ parent nyms that can validate ownership of a subset of the
+ template.
+ </li>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ <li><b>Profile:</b>
+ A collection of pseudonymous opinions (also in a bias-like
+ structure) that an entity claims that it can prove belong to a
+ single (parent) entity. (The proof itself is called
+ <i>validation</i>.)
+ </ul>
<h3>Bibliography</h3>
<dl>
<dt><a name="anon">[anon]</a> The Anonymizer
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