[cap-talk] Define petname

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Nick Szabo wrote:
> Most crucially, petnames must be connected to reliable sources of
> information to help the user (and even the user's computer
> directly) form accurate conceptions of the entities and the
> kinds of authorities they should be granted, including reliable
> "hints" for the petnames themselves.

Could you give some examples of the sorts of information you have
in mind?  Were you thinking of information coming from the user's
peers or from centralized agencies (e.g. CAs, the USPTO, etc.)?


-- ?!ng