Re: [pkng] Some more wacky ideas... Usability ?

[Leif Johansson <[e-mail]>]

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Massimiliano Pala wrote:
> Hello Peter,
> 
> I understand what you say.. maybe we see things from two very different
> point of view. To me, if you trust already your buddy-list is because you
> already have some sort of relationship with someone. That is a viable
> approach for humans. It has two problems though. First, it does not scale
> outside the number of people you interact with, even more when it comes to
> extend the trust over the internet.. particularly in this case, I think it
> would be better to provide the user with the possibility to extend the
> trust from few, well known authorities (we usually do not interact with
> that many, directly) in some easy fashion, instead of applying a
> peer-to-peer
> policy. My point being, we need some kind of authority...
> 

I think we need both! Using my inter-networking analogy the BGP peer
sets up peering relationships (== buddies) with those peers it has
traffic with (== require trust for) and then buys transit (== generic
trust) from a small set of transit providers to cover the rest of the
Internet.

	Cheers Leif
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