I came across Alex Bunardzic's blog on Online Identity and reading it gave me a new perspective on online reputation, and that is state. Here's a brief brain dump (if there is interest and/or further mulling over this, I will expand on this post)
Trust, reputation identity = someone's collection of attributes
... the Need to remember an object or person's history and attributes that may change over time = state management
... engineering a reputation or identity system becomes a problem of state management
... for embedded systems and connection oriented protocols, state management is already something we do here, e.g. routing algorithms in P2P nets
... the Web is inherently stateless, so maintaining state requires more work
... for engineering an efficient reputation system, the challenge is in state maintenance and optimising state retrieval.
Thoughts?
28 March 2008
Reputation and Maintaining State
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment