Talk:Trust Assignment

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TODO: How to simply determine who can see which albums?

So one of the ideas behind this is: "I'd like David to see my picnic albums, but not my party albums."

Its the photo site's job to restrict access to certain albums (though it is the Socknet's job to restrict message notifications).

Should the Socknet provider share the trust level with the photo site (either explicitly via a number, or implicitly via a list of friends who may view a particular album), or should it be up to the photo site to ask who can access what and store its own list of trust levels?

Hmm...................

Starting to think that grouping can work better in this example.

--Dan 21:35, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Ultimately, it seems a new function will be necessary: it will send the user from a service to his Socknet provider with an id for some resource (an album in the example above). The user will list the users who should have access to that resource (perhaps they'll have a simple way like: "all users trusted more than 50%"). The list will be sent back. (If this can be done dynamically [ie, a user could update some group and have it affect all the services which depend on that group], then that's what should be done.) --Dan 17:39, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

The "dynamic" option will be ignored until the "next version" of the Socknet protocol. For now a static list will be sent back. In the next version, services will receive an update whenever a list changes. For example, if the list was originally "all friends trusted over 50%", then a new friend trusted over 50% will be grounds for an update. --Dan 18:28, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Because this is attached to the Trust Assignment article, it should be made clear that this is the wrong place for it. Access lists could technically be created from any arbitrary information, not necessarily a trust level. IE, I only want my co-workers to be able to see my awesome new uncopyrighted website idea. Or whatever. This also means that access lists do not betray information about trust level (though maybe they do in a real-world sense, they don't in a Socknet-specific sense). --Dan 20:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)