Re: [domainrep] I-D Action: draft-ietf-repute-media-type-03.txt

Hi,

Maybe also worth pointing out that the reputation application that is 
being used (ficticious in this case) would have its own description of 
how it used the rating item, and how the number should be interpreted - 
in a similar way to many anti-spam systems that provide a score, they 
normally provide information on what different levels of that score mean 
and how you might use them - as the user, you can then do whatever you 
like, but the recommendations are provided.

As a further example, in our reputation application, the RATING item in 
the repute response will be either 0 or 1, never anything inbetween, as 
we are simply returning a true or false - our documentation will detail 
how you may wish to use the 0 or 1 as well.

Regards,

Steve

On 18/07/2012 18:37, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 6:29 AM, ??? <dgq2011@gmail.com 
> <mailto:dgq2011@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Consider this case:
>
>     Content-type: application/reputon+json
>
>     {
>
>     "reputon":
>
>     {
>
>     "rater": "RatingsRUs.example.com <http://RatingsRUs.example.com>",
>
>     "rater-authenticity": 1.0,
>
>     "assertion": "IS-GOOD",
>
>     "rated": "Alex Rodriguez",
>
>     "rating": 0.5,
>
>     "sample-size": 50000
>
>     }
>
>     }
>
>     ...indicates that we are absolutely *sure* (1.0) that the entity
>     "RatingsRUs.example.com <http://RatingsRUs.example.com>"
>     consolidated 50000 data points (perhaps from everyone in Yankee
>     Stadium) and concluded that Alex Rodriguez may be *good* or be
>     *bad* (0.5) at something. Besides, if "rater-authenticity" equals
>     0.5 but "rating" equals 1.0, it is also very hard to understand.
>
>
>
> I interpret that reply to mean, literally: RatingsRUs.example.com 
> <http://RatingsRUs.example.com> collected 50,000 data points about 
> Alex Rodriguez.  It is 100% certain that "Alex Rodriguez" refers to a 
> real thing.  The data collected indicates that the claim "Alex 
> Rodriguez is good" is 50% true.
>
> As a person reading this, I take that to mean he's not good but also 
> not bad at whatever the application space covers, or that it's 50% 
> likely that he's good.
>
> -MSK
>
>
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