Defining Trust and Reputation

Mark Baugher wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure we have bottomed out on what the relationship between "web 
> of trust" and "reputation system" is so I'm not sure what a "web of 
> reputation system" is.  I think of web of trust technology for MTAs as a 
> means to extend a reputation system, which could be a single server or 
> set of servers operated by a single service.  In the case of a 
> web-of-trust reputation service, however, either single or multiple 
> operators are trusted to offer reputation services.
> 
> http://www.stanford.edu/~sdkamvar/papers/eigentrust.pdf and 
> http://lsirpeople.epfl.ch/despotovic/CIKM2001-trust.pdf talk about such 
> systems in very general, peer-to-peer file-sharing applications.
> 

I think that the reputation and trust issues need to be resolved as 
well. There is also a pointer to Ed Garck's paper 
(http://article.gmane.org/gmane.ietf.asrg.smtpverify/300) which can be 
found here:

http://nma.com/mcg-mirror/trustdef.htm

I am going to find some time this week to read through these three 
documents to try to get a better handle on what trust actually is.

Yakov