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A '''trust model''' is just a map of who [[trust]]s who, when and in what circumstances.  It establishes '''authoritative integrity''', meaning, you are actually trusting who you think you are trusting.  It is not [[reputation]] although reputation can play a major role in deciding whose assertions to believe.  [[Trademark]], [[standard label]]s and anything that you can [[audit]] is believed to have some degree of this integrity, or people wouldn't act one way when they saw the mark/label, and another way when they don't.
A '''trust model''' is just a map of who [[trust]]s who, when and in what circumstances.  It claims '''authoritative integrity''', meaning, you are actually trusting who you think you are trusting.  It is not [[reputation]] although reputation can play a major role in deciding whose assertions to believe.  However it does not ''establish'' authoritative integrity, that takes an [[audit]] process, and that process has a form of [[investigative integrity]].
 
[[Trademark]], [[standard label]]s and anything that you can [[audit]] is believed to have some degree of this integrity, or people wouldn't act one way when they saw the mark/label, and another way when they don't.


To understand the contrast, consider what happens when you see a term on a label like "fun" or "new" or "more" or "clean" on a label.  There is no control or trust model behind these words, so you dismiss them as [[propaganda]].
To understand the contrast, consider what happens when you see a term on a label like "fun" or "new" or "more" or "clean" on a label.  There is no control or trust model behind these words, so you dismiss them as [[propaganda]].


Any [[revenue model]] is based on some assumptions about a trust model.  This is particularly important in a [[self-funding]] project, but also to the [[Consumerium developers]].
Any [[revenue model]] is based on some assumptions about a trust model.  This is particularly important in a [[self-funding]] project, but also to the [[Consumerium developers]].
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