>Ok, all the TM signs should be off in a few hours
>(there was no trademark claim filed).
Great!
>As far as I can make out, the epinions concept of
>web of trust is substantially different from the
>PGP concept.
I haven't checked the details.
>If there are places we should link
>to (in attribution), I'd appreicate it.
The PGP FAQ is http://www.pgp.net/pgpnet/pgp-faq/
but I couldn't find a definitive place.
Some mentions of the phrase at W3C are appended.
>thanks,
>
>guha
Thank you - kutgw
Tim
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A few places the concept has been mentioned - some of which you know well!
In two two slides in my INET'95 talk (June 1995)
http://www.w3.org/Talks/INET95/Security.html
In the RDF press release, (October 1997)
"With digital signatures, RDF will be key to building the "Web of Trust" for
electronic commerce, collaboration, and other applications."
http://www.w3.org/Press/RDF
In Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification W3C
Recommendation (22 February 1999)
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-rdf-syntax/
It gets a small section in
"Realising the Full Potential of the Web" Tim Berners-Lee, London,
(December 1997)
http://www.w3.org/1998/02/Potential.html
More...
http://search.w3.org/Public/cgi-bin/query?mss=simple&pg=q&what=web&filter=al
l&fmt=.&q=%22Web+of+trust%22&stq=0
The PGP web of trust see
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&sc=on&q=%22Web+of+trust%22+PGP&k
l=XX&stype=stext&search.x=44&search.y=9
not to mention
http://www.alltheweb.com/cgi-bin/search?type=phrase&query=%22PGP+web+of+trus
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>
>Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>
>> This is not about jobs, but is sent to the only real email address I
found
>> on your site. Please pass this on to your management.
>>
>> Your assertion that "Web of Trust" is a trademark I find quite offensive.
I
>> have used the term for a long time to identify a concept and I am myself
>> embarrassed that I don't always find a way to give credit to the PGP
>> community who used it, long before that, to identify a concept they were
>> promoting. Please desist from claiming trademark of something which is
>> clearly generic and if owned, would not be owned by epinions.
>>
>> I would point out that the assertion of trademarks on generic terms, like
>> the assertion of the patentable novelty the processes which are not
>> generally considered novel, is looked on with justified disdain by the
>> development community.
>>
>> Tim Berners-Lee
>