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RE: Announcing httpsy://, a YURL scheme
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael_Heyman@NAI.com)
Wed Jul 16 09:29:32 2003
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 08:07:42 -0500
From: <Michael_Heyman@NAI.com>
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> From: Ed Gerck [mailto:egerck@nma.com]=20
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 1:38 PM
> [EDIT]=20
> Trust can also be seen as that which can break your system.=20
> By believing in *one* trusted introducer, a single source=20
> of information, a single trusted source, you have no=20
> correction channel available. One of the earliest=20
> references to this principle can be found some five hundred=20
> years ago in the Hindu governments of the Mogul period, who=20
> are known to have used at least three parallel reporting=20
> channels...
>
A YURL aware search engine may find multiple independent references to a
YURL, thus giving you parallel reporting channels, and increasing trust.
Of course, this method differs from the YURL method for trust. The
parallel channel method assigns a trust value to a site by querying the
YURL aware search engine.
-Michael Heyman
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