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Re: "Fuzzy" SPKI (was Re: Certificate Expiration)



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At 11:29 PM 5/19/98 +0100, Frank O'Dwyer wrote:
>I suppose it's more of a research area than something
>for SPKI, but I think that fuzzy sets would be a natural 
>mechanism to achieve this. In general a 'fuzzification'
>of authorisations is interesting to contemplate.

[...]

>Maybe defining a fuzzy 5-tuple reduction, plus corresponding
>fuzzy validity matching, is a possible route to overlay this
>on the existing SPKI. The validity part, as I say, would be
>easy to do with fuzzy sets. I guess it's another day's work 
>though.

Frank,

	the idea sounds fascinating to me.  I have no experience in fuzzy logic.  
Could you elaborate on this -- maybe show what an evaluation algorithm would 
be like?

 - Carl

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