Persona-comments-David Nicol-Information Trust Institute at Univ. of Illinois

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Source: Email received April 22, 1011

A trusted third party and analogy to Underwriters Lab and stock market

Nicol, David Malcolm [dmnicol@iti.illinois.edu] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 2:50 PM

I'm really fascinated by what I'm understanding.

The idea of the ITA is fascinating. Using descriptive terminology from computer security, it would be a "trusted 3rd party", but here for information rather than cryptographic keys. It's an idea worth trying.

I think [the "aha" moment was] when you make the comparison with Underwriters Lab, the stock market, etc. Then I "got it". Or got something, anyway . . . Whether it can succeed or not, I don't know. But it relies on a model that has worked in other contexts, for sharing of other things.

I'm thinking we should have you up sometime in the fall to give a talk. This has links to economics, privacy, information trust, complex systems.


David M. Nicol, Director
Information Trust Institute
Coordinated Science Laboratory
University of Illinois
Urbana, Ill. dmnicol@iti.illinois.edu

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