Melvin,
While the TAG might resist picking winners and losers in an unclear technology battle as a short-term strategy, I think AWWW suffers because it assumes trust too many places.
For updating the AWWW we have, I've been thinking somewhat the opposite: that we need at least a model and a framework for talking about trust, and to encompass the different ways in which trust affects architecture.
> I think what's key is that the AWWW resist pressures to pick winners and losers in trust.
Why is this 'key'?
> There should be a loose coupling between the trust system employed and web.
There should be a coupling. Why loose?
Ø When trust systems get closely coupled to an architecture, it is potentially problematic.
Everything is potentially problematic, why this one in particular?
> IMHO it should even be possible to use an 'honor system'.
An honor system is a kind of simple trust model. Why not?