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An Eco-System of Trust Services

One of Hewlett-Packard's main corporate strategies is to develop and market technologies that enable new kinds of IT applications to be delivered as e-services.

The Trusted E-Services Laboratory in HP's corporate research lab in Bristol is researching the requirements for trust in e-business and developing prototype services that meet these. Our vision of the future includes eco-systems of co-operating e-services that provide and enhance trust between the partners in an internet business relationship. These e-services operate at a number of levels, from primitives such as cryptographic key management for secure messaging to high-level services such as product/supplier recommendation.

The presentation describes our vision and how it fits current and future business processes, and also covers the current status of the prototype development work.

Pete Bramhall, Project Manager, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK

Pete Bramhall is a project manager in the Trusted E-Services Laboratory in Hewlett-Packard's corporate research laboratories in Bristol, England. His group is doing research into the provision of information and services that enhance and underpin trust in electronic transactions over the internet; this work includes the creation of prototype eco-systems of such trust services.

During his 16 years at Hewlett-Packard, Pete has worked as a technical contributor and a manager in a number of research and development programs, many of which have been concerned with data protection products and solutions. He has considerable experience working with international partners on joint development projects and has represented Hewlett-Packard in a number of standardization forums. He has been editor of more than 10 official standards and spent 3 years as chair of ECMA TC15.

Pete holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Manchester, England. He can be reached at pete_bramhall@hp.com