-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Eric Murray writes:
The other problem (tying the nym to RealName) for employers is more severe. A nym is only good when no one can tie it to your real name. If I have to tell everyone I do work for what my real name and nym is, soon enough people will be able to tie the two that the nym becomes nearly useless.
Maybe Lucky would be willing to share some wisdom from his experiences consulting for various companies. (I don't know how much his reputation as "Lucky Green" has come into play in securing those contracts, and of course perhaps he really is an Irishman whose parents (the Greens) named him "Lucky"....) The concept of transferable credentials is awkward because the actual properties described by the credentials often are not transferable from one object/entity to another. For example, a cauliflower could in principle have a credential certifying that it's a vegetable (according to someone), and transfer that veggie credential to a jackal, but the jackal is still not in fact a vegetable. I'm still not sure whether it makes sense to have "reputation capital" denominated in an actual currency that can be traded, for the above reason. We might use something like a nym-independent(*) credential statement signed by a certifier and encrypted to the subject of the credential. Pseudonyms and verinyms belonging to various persons/agents/etc. could freely swap around these "rep rupees" with potentially very confusing results. Since credentials need to be backed up by actual performance when it comes to a job, such a system might actually be acceptable. I could buy a lion taming credential with some e$, but everyone would realize that I wouldn't last long on the job if it didn't describe me fairly accurately. ;) Presumably a trustable-with-enormous-sums-of-cash credential would command quite a high price on the open market. I am ignoring here the significant gap between the passive reputation accrual when someone reads messages from a nym, and the active reputation building involved in handing out credentials. (*) Form letters are handy, but there's the usual tradeoff between the traceability and descriptiveness of the document. Futplex <futplex@pseudonym.com> "Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage...." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBMQozKCnaAKQPVHDZAQE0cQf+N1AoRXYhdlFAVZfcE+MAav6DCyyH+b64 UzmKhUGPZnj24inJp0GQ1KVZK9orQ38xz2PFpwBPWbIb3yalcE+HGrQ4uhw5bIrD pSSrDIGmkbQAy7111Ath/rZwQD6Nrdzu1HO2Mw5k2BNsH5P3keLv1MqYNFg9idgC vq9KnJmifTIUhgXS5Qog1xA5ssMQ93akL8gYl+AoWaL9q2N3yqiPoBPYe9iq4qxy 1SpSe0fAO53HwSERizvMmIPWW9D7tonPIVUrZEeHPDSGzEHhS/B+V1jUtJo3Wzr0 Ny16ujZ3Ml7Dx0uyASjZuR2EORQu09pfQlu8Z79eehvsoDBKXq/ymQ== =ZY2q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----