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This suggests that the authorization/reputation system needs to be consolidated (vs. centralized) but that the services could still be decentralized. The world
by gwright 8y ago
This suggests that the authorization/reputation system needs to be consolidated (vs. centralized) but that the services could still be decentralized.
The world of commerce has a variety of mechanism to ensure credibility and accountability (signed contracts, security deposits, identification systems, and so on). Extended validation certificates is one manifestation of this in the digital world.
A decentralized service that relied on a consolidated reputation system might be able to provide a framework for managing bad actors.
- Kalium 8y agoI'm curious how you distinguish a consolidated reputation system from a centralized one. I would expect that a consolidated system, in which one can get the same answer to the same reputation query from multiple places and perhaps multiple parties, to effectively be a centralized, distributed system. It seems to me like a distinction without difference - what am I missing? Once you have a strong centralized reputation system, you are pretty close to having re-centralized your decentralized system once again. Especially in a context where a relatively small number of systems send and receive most of the email to begin with.
- gwright 8y agoBy consolidated I meant a small number of authorities vs a single authority.