p2p trust : trust

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This area deals with issues of trust, possibly the most interesting to me. Areas I hope to cover include:

trust models
trust contexts
sizing of trust communities
transferral of trust

A longer list, which I hope to expand at some point, and may form the basis of a PhD application, is available as points to cover.

Trust

Some mini-essays, exploring Trust.

Scoping my interest in trust
Some more thoughts
Some thoughts in reaction to some of O'Neill's work
Jottings around Christmas 2002.
Issues and questions that need some answers
Trust and network theory - trying to apply some tools to the problem and raising some specific problems

Some other resources which include discussions of trust:

Advogato's trust metric
Some work by Sylvain Poirier which includes a trust model (also available in French)

Capabilities

Capabilities - in a far-too-small nutshell - are one way of enshrining trust relationships in working systems. Much of my interest is actually in how humans decide to make relationships, rather than how these relationships are transferred to systems, but if you want to go from models to implementation, you need to know (and understand) these issues.

Trust, a brief essay by Norm Hardy
What is a Capability, Anyway?, an essay by Jonathan Shapiro
Smart Contracts

Thanks to Zooko for these.

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