- From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>
- Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:37:37 -0700
- To: "R.V.Guha" <guha@guha.com>, "Jeff Heflin" <heflin@cse.lehigh.edu>
- 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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