RE: A plea against central planning (was: Why not import everything?)

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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