It's Like Déjà Vu All Over Again
"You could probably waste an entire day on the preceding links alone. But why take chances? We also give you Paul Snively..." — John Wiseman, lemonodor
Thanks, Aaron! I forgot to link to the KeyNote Trust Management System in my earlier posts. While not a reputation management system itself, it could certainly be used as the basis of one, and in the meantime, it addresses another important issue, namely correlating names and authority with respect to specific, fine-grained actions.
Of course, I also neglected (oops!) to point to Aaron's own Plex Project, which apparently aims to integrate RDF storage/searching and reputation management. I think it's clear that we're talking about an idea whose time has come.
It's also pretty frustrating that the majority of the stuff described on Michael Reiter's home page can only be accessed if you are a member of the ACM, buy a subscription to the proceedings, or purchase the articles individually. Feh. The Byzantine Quorum stuff sounds like stuff to watch. And why can't we download Rampart, Fleet, et al?
It's tempting to buy some of the papers and then try to apply the concepts to JavaGroups and/or Spread. I've been following Process Group Communication Systems since Ken Birman's seminal work on Horus around 1990, and I thought they were the wave of the future then. Well, the future is now.
8:15:39 PM