This is a good point. For now, I consider the phrase “web of trust” to be a very broad one that encompasses a wide variety of purposes and methods. It’s been over 3 decades since pretty good privacy was released and we still haven’t wrapped our heads around it as a community, as evidenced by the fact that the big tech companies still exist. So a big, broad, loosely defined term works for me.

Recently (last month or two), I’ve been using the term “WoT Score” in a very focused way, to differentiate it from other scoring systems like the Influence Score which is what I’m advocating now that I have a working demo of how to calculate it and use it. Tapestry, concept graph, and grapevine are umbrella terms I use to describe my own approaches, with a glossary of 20 or 30 or so associated terms and concepts, written in draft form and at varying states of editing in my github repos.

It will be interesting to see how the terminology around WoT develops over time. I anticipate the terminology will evolve as the use cases become more apparent.