What are the components of the SULTAN Trust Management Framework?
SULTANs Trust Management consists of five components, namely: Trust establishment defines the protocols by which parties wishing to form a trust relationship can negotiate and exchange evidence and credentials, which can be provided to an evaluation service. Trust evaluation service gathers and evaluates the evidence for defining a trust relationship. This could be based on a risk analysis of the context for the relationship, experience from past interactions with the trustee or recommendations from other entities, such as colleagues, who have experience of interacting with the entity within a similar context. In addition, a trusted third party evaluation service such as a consumer organisation, which evaluates goods or services, can be used for recommendations. Trust specification defines trust relationships in terms of the parties involved, and the context of the interaction. We permit multiple trustors or trustees to be involved in a relationship and a trustor/trustee can be involve
