Abstract: A method of providing a rating for an entity within a network of entities comprises receiving, from a ratee entity requiring a rating, a message including a nomination of one or more rating entities. Each nominated rating entity may be presented with a request to respond to a set of questions in relation to the ratee entity. Each response can be selected from a corresponding rating scale. Resulting response scores on the rating scale are subsequently received from the rating entities. A qualification measure is computed for each of the rating entities. The qualification measure may comprise a capability measure, a bias measure and/or a familiarity measure. For each rating entity, a rating score is computed for the ratee entity based upon the response scores and the qualification measure of the rating entity. An overall rating score of the ratee entity is then computed based upon the individual rating scores.