At 02:53 PM 4/15/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
And to make sure that Ray Dillinger is not confused, let me point out that my "credit rating data haven" is not necessarily for cyberspace nyms. Rather, it's for the meatspace world of credit evaluation.
"Credit" has many dimensions (or application). The NYT has more journalistic "credit" than Drudge. Don Trump has more financial "credit" than readers of this list :-) Various members of this list have more list "credit" when it comes to e.g., physical explanations than others. Since corporations are virtual citizens, and citizens may participate in a multitude virtual corporations, there's a lot of behavior to keep track of. Social primates are uniquely equipt to monitor conformance with social contracts. The automation of reputation is so natural its not funny.