Re: [Asrg] 2. Improving Blacklists and Reputation Services

["Walter Dnes" <waltdnes at waltdnes.org>]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:47:39PM -0500, Seth Breidbart wrote
> Yakov Shafranovich <research@solidmatrix.com> wrote:
> 
> > An accrediation service is vouching for someone, a reputation
> > service is stating an opinion of someone's reputation. The two
> > things are different.
> 
> How are they different (in any way that matters to me)?  In both
> cases, a third party X is saying something to the effect of "I think
> you should trust Y."  (Or is it that accreditation can only be
> positive, while reputation can be positive or negative?  In that case,
> I see no reason for accreditation services since they're strictly a
> subset of reputation services.)

  I interpret accreditation to mean testifying to known facts.  E.g. the
company using a certificate is XYZ.  Reputation is more word-of-mouth,
or what the community *THINKS* of someone's character.

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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
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