On 25/Jan/11 22:14, John Leslie wrote:
Dotzero <dotzero(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
Doug, could you share with us what reputation is?
Reputation (as the name implies) is a prediction of the likelihood of
near-future behavior.
Better yet, a prediction of the likelihood of a certain kind of
response to complaints and abuse reports. Any host might be taken
down, hijacked, circumvented, or otherwise abused for sending spam,
what makes a difference is whether it has an abuse team who is willing
and capable of countering that. _Reputation_ is a measure of such
will and capacity.
On 25/Jan/11 20:29, Douglas Otis wrote:
Reputation Definition: An assessment of an identifier that
accurately reflects the behavior of the resource administrator.
For example, these identifiers might be the address of an SMTP
client or the AS of the network provider.
Let's not confuse authN and authZ: Identifiers are related to the
former, assessments to the latter. Doug's example alludes to the
problem of determining the worthier (more reputable) point in a hierarchy.
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