- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 13:04:27 -0700
- To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@microsoft.com>, "R.V.Guha" <guha@guha.com>, "Jeff Heflin" <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>
- Cc: <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>
Correction: Guha just pointed out that Thawte has been owned by Verisign since about December of 1999. > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@microsoft.com] > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:38 PM > To: R.V.Guha; Jeff Heflin > Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org > > > suspect we need to use some thing like Epinions version of the Web of > > Trust to duplicate the peer review process found in the scientific > > community. > > Thawte (a Verisign competitor) has a Web of Trust program: > http://www.thawte.com/getinfo/programs/wot/contents.html > > Still identity-based, though. > > I think that techniques for determining general trustworthiness of > assertions will depend on the situation. For example, assertions about > whether a payment has been submitted would probably rely on a digital > signature from an explicitly trusted authority. On the other hand, > trustworthiness of assertions on less critical matters could be done > with web-of-trust as in epinions or advogato. > > Another easy way to get a crude measure of trustworthiness of assertions > is to do basket analysis on a large group of assertions, and "trust" the > people who fall into your same basket. In other words, people who say > similar things to you are probably going to be agreeable to you :-)
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