On 1/19/07, David Nicol <davidnicol(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
So what's to motivate the operators then? Operating a reputatble
reputation server service will require ongoing effort.
Let me try to be clearer about this. I'm not stopping anyone from
charging to people for any of the services they might choose to offer
as part of the implementation of any technique. This para is about
discouraging people from making proposals which enshrine a *single*
*central* register, and that is because I think it would confer too
much power, and might be proposed simply as a licence for the proposer
to print money, never mind the practical constraints of setting it up
and operating it.
IMHO, and it *is* only my opinion, is that it should be possible and
would be desirable to establish a technique which allowed multiple
providers to co-exist, and those providers' services could either be
used singly or combined without a mandated central authority.
I said "SHOULD NOT", not "MUST NOT" because I accept that there may
well be some proposed techniques which can make a valid and compelling
case for a central authority. I can't think of one though.
Set up standards
for interoperability of reputation services and commercial reputation
services could appear, the reputation of the commercial services will
get determined in all the usual reputation determination sources --
free press, word of mouth, etc.
Fine yes, my thoughts exactly, yes. An open market place for services.
The document intends to discourage the mandating of a single operator,
and disallow the _mandating_ of commercial services. It doesn't
_demand_ the provision of free services or the existence of
competition. It does, however, attempt to permit them.
I'd like to see proposals permit competition, collaboration and the
co-existence of free and commercial services, this reflects the nature
of the modern internet and current practice in the domain of spam.
d.
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