Re: Email Web of Trust - Problem Statement

Alan DeKok wrote:
> Mark Baugher <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>1. Has the group considered supporting a common policy as a basis for the 
>>web?  Otherwise, there needs to be some language to represent a particular 
>>member's policy.  Member A rates mail according to criteria x, y, z while 
>>Member B uses v, w, x.  This seems intractable to me.
> 
> 
>   Agreed.  So we don't try to solve it.  There are still numbers which
> we can publish which are emperically verifiable, useful, and not
> readily available on the net today.  The question is what those
> numbers are...
> 

Then it is really trust? Sounds more like reputation.

Also, what about 
(https://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/working-groups/asrg/current/msg09253.html)?

Yakov