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This document is basically a set of notes, and covers some of the areas of trust that I think are important in the p2p world.

• Trust
• Identity
  • within groups (and outside them - exclusion)
  • in the wider community
• Models already espoused
  • e.g. - Groove, slashdot, Advogato, kuro5hin
  • their efficacy
  • their appropriateness
  • their scalability
  • their security
  • their efficiency
  • their defensibility
  • their assumptions
• Needs now and in the future
  • OSS projects
  • e-/m-commerce
  • collaborative computing
  • groupware
  • ...?
• Islands of trust
  • size and type of trust networks
• Cultural and gender aspects, discourse
• Spoofing and asserting identity
• Context
• True decentralization - is it possible?
• Reputation
• Risk
  • assessing risk - trust as a way of betting against risk

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Mike Bursell - mike@p2ptrust.org, 2001-11-04