From: cvs@openprivacy.orgCVS update: openprivacy/htdocs/reputations
Date: Tuesday March 20, 19101 @ 12:38
Author: fen
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Update of /usr/local/cvs/public/openprivacy/htdocs/reputations
In directory giga:/home/fen/projects/openprivacy/htdocs/reputations
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index.shtml
Log Message:
removed redundant and incorrect definitions at top
jetspeek->reptile (with new text)
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File: openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml
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Index: openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml
diff -u openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml:1.9 openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml:1.10
--- openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml:1.9 Tue Feb 6 18:33:23 2001
+++ openprivacy/htdocs/reputations/index.shtml Tue Mar 20 12:38:34 2001
@@ -1,21 +1,13 @@
<!--#include virtual="/includes/top.html"-->
<!--#include virtual="/includes/navigation.html"-->
+<!-- $Id: index.shtml,v 1.10 2001/03/20 20:38:34 fen Exp $ -->
-<h2>Reputations and Reputation Server Concepts</h2>
+<h2>Reputations and Reputation Management Concepts</h2>
-Every agent within the OpenPrivacy system supports the Reputation Server
-facility. Some basic terminology follows:
-<ul>
- <li>a nym Ji can state an <i>Opinion</i> of an object through a
- <i>Reference</i> (often a URI)
- <li>an Opinion adds depth to the <i>Reputation</i> of the object being
- referenced
- <li>a <i>Bias</i> may be calculated from a collection of Opinions and
- Reputations. Further, a Bias may be packaged and "gifted" to a new
- acquaintance.
-</ul>
-<p>
-Below are some pointers to further reading:
+Every agent within the OpenPrivacy system is based on the Reputation
+ Management Framework. Below are some pointers to further reading.
+ (Please see the <a href="/opd.shtml">Definitions page</a> for help with
+ the terminology.)
<h3><i>from Platform (<a href="/platform.shtml">/platform.shtml</a>):</i></h3>
@@ -29,69 +21,14 @@
<ul>
<li>accumulate valuable <i>reputation capital</i> for shared profile
information, ideas and publications without needing to divulge identity
+ </li>
<li>annotate any object with machine-readable opinions (grafts), thus
creating a general purpose and secure reputation facility
+ </li>
<li>enable opt-in profile/reputation owner contact by third parties
+ </li>
</ul>
-<h3><i>from Definition (<a href="/opd.shtml">/opd.shtml</a>)</i></h3>
-
-<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>putReputation()</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 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>
-
<h3><i>from Requirements (<a href="/opr.shtml">/opr.shtml</a>)</i></h3>
Reputations are first class objects - based on XMLDSig - that can be
@@ -117,16 +54,29 @@
non-repudiation (definition TBD)
</ul>
-<h3><i>from <a href="/projects/jetspeek.shtml">/projects/jetspeek.shtml</a>:</i></h3>
+<h3><i>from <a href="/projects/reptile.shtml">/projects/reptile.shtml</a>:</i></h3>
-<dl>
- <dt><li>Reputation management
- <dd>All annotations, rankings and reputations may be made pseudonymously
- through a client-side "Primary Agent" - part of the peer-to-peer
- OpenPrivacy Reputation Management System. This Primary Agent
- creates and manages nyms for the user transparently, and enables the
- user to view, modify and/or delete reputation information whether
- stored locally or remotely.
+ <dl>
+ <dt><li>Personalization and Reputation Management
+ </li></dt>
+
+ <dd>Channels, articles and indeed all objects within the OpenPrivacy
+ framework can be enhanced via the grafting of reputation objects.
+ This provides a facility to provide feedback to the creation,
+ delivery and presentation aspects of each object, as well as
+ enabling threshold alerts and other advaced features.
+ </dd>
+ <dt><li>Privacy and Nym Management
+ </li></dt>
+
+ <dd>All reputation grafts (annotations of opinions and/or rankings)
+ and subscription activities are made pseudonymously through a
+ client-side "Primary Agent" - part of the peer-to-peer OpenPrivacy
+ Reputation Management Framework. This Primary Agent creates and
+ manages nyms for the user transparently, and enables the user to
+ view, modify and/or delete reputation information whether stored
+ locally or remotely.
+ </dd>
</dl>
<h3><i>Additional reputation links:</i></h3>
@@ -164,6 +114,5 @@
of others, is an area that combines economics, game theory,
psychology, and expectations.</i>
</dl>
-
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