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Subject: FW: OASIS Call for Participation: Open Reputation Management Systems (ORMS) TC
To: OASIS members & interested parties
A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS Open Reputation
Management Systems (ORMS) Technical Committee has been proposed by the members
of OASIS listed below. The proposal, below, meets the requirements of the OASIS
TC Process [a]. The TC name, statement of purpose, scope, list of deliverables,
audience, and language specified in the proposal will constitute the TC's
official charter. Submissions of technology for consideration by the TC, and the
beginning of technical discussions, may occur no sooner than the TC's first
meeting.
This TC will operate under our 2005 IPR Policy [b]. The eligibility
requirements for becoming a participant in the TC at the first meeting (see
details below) are that:
(a) you must be an employee of an OASIS member organization or an individual
member of OASIS;
(b) the OASIS member must sign the OASIS membership agreement [c];
(c) you must notify the TC chair of your intent to participate at least 15
days prior to the first meeting, which members may do by using the "Join this
TC" button on the TC's public page at [d]; and
(d) you must attend the first meeting of the TC, at the time and date fixed
below.
Of course, participants also may join the TC at a later time. OASIS and the TC
welcomes all interested parties.
Non-OASIS members who wish to participate may contact us about joining OASIS
[c]. In addition, the public may access the information resources maintained for
each TC: a mail list archive, document repository and public comments facility,
which will be linked from the TC's public home page at [d].
Please feel free to forward this announcement to any other appropriate lists.
OASIS is an open standards organization; we encourage your feedback.
Regards,
Mary
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Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
email: mary.mcrae@oasis-open.org
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[a] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php
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[c] See http://www.oasis-open.org/join/
[d] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=orms
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
OASIS Open Reputation Management Systems (ORMS) TC
OASIS Open Reputation Management Systems (ORMS) Technical Committee
(1)(a) The name of the TC
OASIS Open Reputation Management Systems (ORMS) Technical Committee
(1)(b) A statement of purpose, including a definition of the problem to be
solved.
The increasing reliance on the Internet as a medium for social interaction and
online
collaboration, and the emergence of converged networks with ubiquitous services
that span
different wire-line, wireless, mobile networks, devices, and users are placing
new emphasis for
developing reputation mechanisms for electronics based communities.
The use of reputation systems has been proposed for various applications such
as:
* Validating the trustworthiness of sellers and buyers in online auctions (which
sites like eBay
have proved can have large influence on sellers)
* Detecting free riders in peer to peer networks
* Ensuring the authenticity of signature keys in a web of trust.
* Smarter searching of web sites, blogs, events, products, companies and other
individuals.
Reputation in this context refers to the opinions about an entity, from others.
Reputation is one of the factors upon which trust can be based through the use
of
verifiable claims. Reputation changes with time and is used within a context.
Trust and reputation are related to a context. For example, my trust in Sam as
a
doctor can be different from my trust in Sam as my financial advisor.
There are various methods for generating user's reputation data or
trustworthiness.
Some methods are based on user's feedback through appropriate feedback channels,
such as in eBay. Other methods include having viewers participate in the
reputation-building process through the user's profile at specific sites and
communities. Each method has its limitations in terms of its susceptibility to
bad
actors, manipulation of data for specific purposes, and spammers.
Current thrusts with user-centric Identity solutions place immediate and urgent
importance for the development of online reputation management systems that
could be
used for enabling trust and collaboration in a distributed manner while
preserving the
privacy of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
Reputation models are built using diverse mechanisms to meet specific needs -
such as
the feedback system of eBay. In general reputations systems collect, distribute,
and may aggregate feedback about a principal's past behavior. The availability
of online
reputation feedback systems and the use of data extraction mechanisms will
eventually lead
to the wide availability of reputation information about users (human, devices
etc.) on
the Internet. As such, there is a need to have users control how, when and by
whom their
reputation data is accessed. At the least, there is a need for users to be aware
and
in control of privacy related components of their reputation data. These issues
are
also related to how global reputation is computed based on observed user's
interactions.
Reputation based techniques can be used as the basis for building trust and
enhancing
cooperation in peer-to-peer networks, either in a centralized manner or through
the use
of aggregators and brokers. Currently, because the majority of existing online
reputation
based mechanisms is developed by private companies and use proprietary schemas
for
representing reputation data, there is no standard way to query, store,
aggregate,
or verify claims between systems. There is no standard way for users to
participate or
determine the reputation of the reputation data providers. Additionally, there
is no
standard communication protocol for exchanging reputation data.
Evaluating large sets of different and possibly contradictory opinions is a
non-trivial process. The trust model of a reputation system represents the core
component of the system. It defines all assumptions on the properties of trust
and
describes how to calculate reputation scores (trust values). A trust value
cannot be
applicable in all contexts. As such, there is a need for a Reputation Management
Framework that enables users to acquire raw reputation data and calculate their
own
reputation scores, either using their personal experience or with the help of
data aggregators.
A good Reputation Management System will separate the reputation of the
evaluator
from the data that is used to evaluate a give entity in the system. The same
concept
should apply to all entities in the eco-system. In this fashion, aggregators
will have a
reputation that can be used to score how well they do in gathering good data,
and feedback
providers will have their own reputation that could be used as a means to purge
or clean
feedback that they provide on other entities. Such systems will be less
susceptible to
data manipulation and have the ability to provide constructive reputation or
trustworthiness
scores.
In order to build an internet-scale trust-infrastructure, reputation data needs
to be
readily available for use and sharing in many contexts. Additionally, there is a
need to ensure that users have a say in who owns their data, how it is protected
and what mechanisms are available to manage it. Many OASIS and other open
standards
can play an important role in ensuring that reputation data stays open. The
ORMS
standards will be independent of the Identity Management System.
(1)(c) The scope of the work of the TC.
The purpose of this TC is to develop an Open Reputation Management System (ORMS)
that provides the ability to use common data formats for representing reputation
data,
and standard definitions of reputation scores. The system will not define
algorithms for
computing the scores. However, it will provide the means for understanding the
relevancy
of a score within a given transaction. The TC's output will enable the
deployment of a
distributed reputation systems that can be either centralized or decentralized
with the
ability for aggregators and intermediaries to be part of the business model.
Scope of the work
1. Analysis, Use Cases and Requirement Gathering
a. Use cases to gather requirements that ORMS will need to meet and understand
the
business and social impact of such a system including security, privacy,
threats
and risks requirements will also be developed. Explore the use of reputation
mechanisms
in novel settings.
b. Document that analyzes performance of existing reputation mechanisms with
respect to the requirements developed in the previous steps and identify
current gaps.
2. Develop Framework for Open Reputation Data
a. Development a framework for reputation data gathering including:
* Development of common data models for expressing reputation data
* XML Schema for representing ORMS data
* XML Schema for Reputation Score
* Development of standard way of exchanging reputation claims among systems.
* Development of means of aggregating reputation data including delegation of
claims generations and assertions.
* Development of query/response communication protocols for exchanging
reputation data in a trusted and secure fashion. This step may develop a
new protocol, or extend current ones such as SAML, OpenID etc.
3. Security, threats and Risk analysis
* Perform Security Risk analysis and profiles for best practice.
4. Out of Scope
Algorithms that can be used for generating a reputation score are out of scope
of
this work. The work will define a standard way to infer what a given score will
mean
but will not specify how to compute that value.
The work does not exclude methods for asserting equivalence or relationships
between
scoring systems. A possible output of the TC work might include methods to
facilitate the
calculation of comparisons between score ratings, or operations that take
multiple scores
as inputs.
(1)(d) A list of deliverables, with projected completion dates.
1. Use Cases document; July 2008
2. Requirements document; September 2008
3. Framework for reputation data gathering; January 2009
4. XML Schema for representing ORMS data; March 2009
5. XML Schema for Reputation Score; March 2009
6. Assertions/claims (tokens) profiles; March 2009
7. Protocol(s) for exchanging of reputation data and assertion tokens;
September 2009
8. Security, threats and Risk analysis; January 2010
(1)(e) Specification of the IPR Mode under which the TC will operate.
The TC shall operate under: RF on limited Terms
(1)(f) The anticipated audience or users of the work.
The output of this work will have direct benefits for the use of the internet as
a
medium for conducting social internetworking. The work will have direct impact
of the
users of the Identity Management, blogs, OpenID communities and trust
establishment in
peer to peer and social networks.
(1)(g) The language in which the TC shall conduct business.
This TC will use English as the language for conducting its operations.
(2) Non-normative information regarding the startup of the TC:
(2)(a) Identification of similar or applicable work that is being done in
other OASIS TCs or by other organizations, why there is a need for
another
effort in this area and how this proposed TC will be different, and what
level of
liaison will be pursued with these other organizations.
The ORMS TC will be developing new work items that are currently not covered by
any
other OASIS TC. However, the TC will be using the output of other OASIS TC such
as XDS, XRI,
DSS, WS*, SAML and WS-Security.
The TC co-chairs will coordinate closely with the above TC in order to inform
them about the progress of the ORMS work and also in order to count on their
expertise in the development of ORMS work.
Currently, there is no other work in any other SDO that overlap with the work of
this TC.
(2)(b) The date, time, and location of the first meeting, whether it will
be held in person or by phone, and who will sponsor this first meeting. The
first
meeting of a TC shall occur no less than 30 days after the announcement of its
formation in the case of a telephone or other electronic meeting, and no less
than 45 days after the announcement of its formation in the case of a
face-to-face
meeting.
The First meeting of this TC will take place on May 1 and May 2, 2008 to
coincide with the
OASIS Symposium at: Santa Clara Marriott, 2700 Mission College Boulevard,
Santa Clara CA 95054.
(2)(c) The projected on-going meeting schedule for the year following the
formation
of the TC, or until the projected date of the final deliverable,
whichever comes
first, and who will be expected to sponsor these meetings.
The TC will conduct its business via weekly teleconference call. The time of
the call will be determined during the first meeting of the TC. The TC will
conduct F2F
meeting on as needed bases. Teleconference facilities and F2F meetings will be
sponsored by the TC participants.
(2)(d) The names, electronic mail addresses, and membership affiliations of at
least
Minimum Membership who support this proposal and are committed to the
Charter
and projected meeting schedule.
Tony Rutkowski, VeriSign, trutkowski@verisign.com
Tony Nadalin, IBM, drsecure@us.ibm.com
Drummond Reed, Cordance, drummond.reed@cordance.net
Nat Sakimura, NRI, n-sakimura@nri.co.jp
Tatsuki Sakushima, NRI, tatsuki@nri.com
Masaki Nishitani, NRI, m-nishitani@nri.co.jp
Madhukar, GOOGLE, madhukar@google.com
Phill Windley, Individual, phil@windley.org
Paul Trevithick, Individual, Paul@parityinc.net
Arshad Noor, StrongAuth, arshad.noor@strongauth.com
Bill Barnhill, Booz Allen, barnhill_william@bah.com
Rakesh Radhakrishnan, Sun, Rakesh.Radhakrishnan@Sun.COM
(2)(e) The name of the Convener who must be an Eligible Person.
Abbie Barbir of Nortel will be the TC Convener.
(2)(f) The name of the Member Section with which the TC intends to affiliate
with
The TC intends to affiliate with the IDTrust Member Section.
(2)(g) Optionally, a list of contributions of existing technical work that the
proposers anticipate will be made to this TC.
[1] OpenID Reputation Service Extension (Proposal), by Nat Sakimura,
Nomura Research Institute
[2] Trusted Data Exchange Overview, by Nat Sakimura and
Masaki Nishitani, Nomura Research Institute
* wiki version of the two documents can be found at
http://myidproject.net/?OpenIDTrustedDataExchange
http://myidproject.net/?OpenIDReputationService
(2)(h) Optionally, a draft Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document regarding
the
planned scope of the TC, for posting on the TC's website.
None
(2)(i) Optionally, a proposed working title and acronym for the specification(s)
to be
developed by the TC.
None
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