DistOS-2011W Justice

Members

• Matthew Chou
• Mike Preston
• Thomas McMahon

Meetings

Mar 01:

Early discussions on how we would define justice:

• what are the components of justice?
• should justice involve preventative measure or should it be strictly reactive?

How would evidence be collected and logged?

Discussions on what "punishment" means when referring to computers:

• What can we do to punish or penalize computers?
• Does it make sense to punish computers?

Discussions on how human penal systems work:

• do we want computer justice to be used to dissuade deviant behaviour or should it be used to punish those who have committed "bad" acts?
• should we implement a system that catches/punishes all bad acts or just punish reported acts?
• how will we classify deviant behaviour?
  • by the act itself
  • by the results of the act

Discussed how there would need to be some sort of hierarchical justice system with figure heads who manage justice activities for their specific region:

• collective internet justice: Justice Web or JLA (Justice Link Assessment)
• each region patrolled by a justice managing unit:
  • Internet Batman (Gotham), Internet Superman (Metropolis), etc.

Divided the task of finding research papers into 3 sections:

• current ways to "punish" computers (Matthew)
• ways to collect, log, categorize evidence of inappropriate behaviour (Thomas)
• human methods of justice, various penal systems in our current and historical societies (Mike)