From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/papers
Date: Tuesday March 6, 19101 @ 20:52
Author: fen
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<h1>OpenPrivacy - Enhancing the Internet with Reputations</h1>
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@
<p>
Sierra is the reference implementation of our Reputation
Management System. It is based on the Talon component framework
- and defines our RCE plugin mechanism.
+ and defines our RCE plug-in mechanism.
</p>
<p>
Sierra incorporates various subsystems which should be used by
@@ -336,7 +336,7 @@
are targeting Slashdot and Advogato [<a href="#comm">comm</a>] as
their open source code base will simplify the effort). We will
then show how reputations for one community can be migrated to
- the other, and further, that they will be able to comingle with
+ the other, and further, that they will be able to commingle with
the reputations of the JetsPeek users described above.
</p>
<p>
@@ -458,22 +458,26 @@
Sterling talking about this way back in 1992:
</p>
<blockquote>
- <font color=green>
- [get correct Bruce Sterling quote from broadcatch site]
- </font>
- What's information really worth? Pretty soon you'll be able to
- carry the Library of Congress around in your pocket. Are you going
- to read the library of congress? Is that really valuable to you?
- No, what's really valuable - what's in short supply - is your
- attention. So the true value is in the signposts that direct your
- attention to what you want to see when you want to see it. [<a
+ What's information really about? It seems to me there's something
+ direly wrong with the "Information Economy". It's not about data,
+ it's about attention. In a few years you may be able to carry the
+ Library of Congress around in your hip pocket. So? You're never
+ gonna read the Library of Congress. You'll die long before you
+ access one tenth of one percent of it. What's important --
+ increasingly important -- is the process by which you figure out
+ what to look at. This is the beginning of the real and true
+ economics of information. Not who owns the books, who prints the
+ books, who has the holdings. The crux here is access, not
+ holdings. And not even access itself, but the signposts that tell
+ you what to access -- what to pay attention to. In the Information
+ Economy everything is plentiful -- except attention. [<a
href="#ster">ster</a>]
</blockquote>
<p>
The OpenPrivacy framework creates value by enabling the attachment
of opinions to information. Reputation calculation mechanisms -
using bias metrics - then use these opinions to formulate
- subjective judgements as to the quality of that information. Further,
+ subjective judgments as to the quality of that information. Further,
OpenPrivacy enables a new service-based economy of information
hunters, gatherers and filters, all adding value to their specific
domains by attaching their opinions and simultaneously gaining
@@ -489,7 +493,7 @@
economy providing these services will thrive. There is no need for
digital cash mechanisms to exist to bootstrap this processes; the
trade in information services might resemble barter. However, when
- used in conjuction with large, legacy databases such as those used
+ used in conjunction with large, legacy databases such as those used
by retail, credit or financial institutions, the power of
reputations to help direct producers and consumers first to the
appropriate marketplace and then to the specific goods and services
@@ -591,7 +595,7 @@
<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
+ generally created from the principal'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
@@ -635,7 +639,7 @@
belong to a single (parent) entity. (The proof itself is called
<i>validation</i>.) Finally, as a profile may be a singular
object indistinguishable from a Reputation, the terms can be used
- interchangably - the difference is often a matter of semantics.
+ interchangeably - the difference is often a matter of semantics.
</li>
</p>
</ul>
@@ -687,7 +691,10 @@
<<a href="http://java.sun.com/products/hotspot/"
target="_new">http://java.sun.com/products/hotspot>>
</dd>
- <dt><a name="ster">[<b>ster</b>]</a> Bruce Sterling....
+ <dt><a name="ster">[<b>ster</b>]</a> Bruce Sterling, 1992.
+ <dd>from a speech to the Library Information Technology
+ Association, June 1992, San Francisco CA
+ </dd>
<dt><a name="tmay">[<b>tmay</b>]</a> Tim May used the term
"reputation capital" in a 1994 cypherpunk paper
<dd><i>Crypto Anarchy and Virtual Communities</i>