P2P : The Trust Factor

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Andy Oram in continuation to his article : “From P2P to Web Services: Identification and Addressing” writes another article on XML.com, this time focussing on the “TRUST” aspect of Social Netwoking and hence named as : From P2P to Web Services: Trust
In this detailed two page article Andy talks about :

* Trust

* P2P Solution

* State-of-the-art Specifications

* Security Basic

* Future Trends

* The Modest and the Grand Promise

So, to sum up, what do I see in the near future? We need to do something about addressing. We need an easy system that assigns each person a persistent address that is useful for all applications; ideally the system would be distributed and resistant to attack or capture. Current Web Services specifications work on the problem of trust without solving the problem of addressing–that is, the problem as I’ve stated it, the problem of finding someone several hours later

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