What about a trust metric to identify people of trust in the ripple network

[Therence]

I once read a paper on Advogato trust metrics and I think this could be useful as a complement in order to help identify people of trust in the ripple network.

http://www.advogato.org/trust-metric.html

This can especially help in the case a new gateway appears !
Or someone offering service like a gateway but not enough reputation to start up

what do you think ?