Reputation assignment

In addition to the discussion on lookup conventions there is the problem 
of determining the mechanism for how a reputation service is to compute 
a reputation.  What are the inputs and mechanisms for acquiring and 
assessing those inputs that would allow a service to quantify 
reputation?  What is the formula for doing so?

It seems that one could code a server using SIQ and an SQL database 
fairly easily - but by what mechanism is the reputation score in that 
database supposed to be derived?  This seems to me to be a very 
difficult problem.

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Arvel Hathcock
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http://www.altn.com

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