DistOS-2011W Justice

From Soma-notes

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)