-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Adam Back writes:
Firstly note that there are 3 (three) systems going by the name of eternity service at present.
I've heard that there are perhaps as many as two more which are vaguely non-public, as well.
And there is Ryan Lackey's Eternity DDS (where DDS stands for I presume Distributed Data Store?). I am not sure of the details of his design beyond that he is building a market for CPU and disk space, and building on top of a an existing database to create a distributed data base accessible as a virtual web space (amongst other `views'). He gave this URL in his post earlier today:
I'm only using an existing database for reasons of expediency in prototyping. The actual production system will include no commercial code. Oracle is a bloated pig for this kind of thing, too. One of the 'views' for the data will be a virtual database.
[description of how to commit data in Adam Back's Eternity Service implementation elided]
My current design will require some kind of interface between users and eternityspace in order to commit data. Since the pricing/specification/etc. system will be rather sophisticated, I'm also working on a simulation tool to assist users in committing data. However, it will be possible in my ideal implementation for a user to fill out a form with duration of storage required, bandwidth/accessibility/uptime requirements, a pro-rated schedule for nonperformance, amount of space needed, amount of computation needed, etc. and attach their object. Then, there will be a market based system which lets people bid on storing that data -- various indices of prices will exist (although since it is multiaxis, they will have to be surfaces, with a large amount of interpolation). Someone will buy it, perhaps resell in a recursive auction market, etc. There will be a designated verifier which will make sure the contract is met, using a variety of mechanisms designed to preserve anonymity and prevent fraud, and enforce the contract. Payment will be held in escrow, disbursed at pre-specified intervals, again totally anonymously. Since these contracts are negotiable, there should be a market in selling/trading/etc. old Eternity contracts. As the realities of storing data change, the market will take this into account, and up or down value existing and new contracts. Potentially, one could even use Eternity storage as a kind of currency. The system would seem to be purpose-built for money laundering, once it is big enough that all money going into or out of the system is not monitorable (a threshold which depends on the design of the system and payment scheme as well). I think I'm going to take a break from my demo writing to work on some public documents. Some parts of my current system are total mock-ups, others don't yet exist. My "two-way anonymous e-cash implementation" is a chit file in /tmp on my machine (heh), and putting data into the system requires serious frobbing. And Oracle is handling most of the coherency/etc. issues right now. - -- Ryan Lackey rdl@mit.edu http://mit.edu/rdl/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQEVAwUBNLmcw6wefxtEUY69AQH+tgf8Ctsg6UJbGzDhzeXwNKYB6qI+afTnKWkw sYgyRf/tKEual6yaXymiCBswUzfW39jdqkQ313DPlGQzovCq6AcsXQyhk5H93h+e V5aI2belCUEUFxJ21WUj++ZtM5vSh0lcFAlz/w3ejuju7Il27uW8vDVfHjOBg65m oO6F7Wi4Wp2V4B4720KieHLhs9Rg9YGNVsDZPSgfY5KFpcDylpEARW6ipCceBQu+ fLrT+or4T3KVSKR7hSPMxULw/FKarMAz+xpyBXFt8UQMEU0azBVhPU3Ui5VPUZ+o mVMBiZKDFU4dvQCNygcGtebQ1JUFy3YKq48SuTYBr4FPyYNWMgGCSQ== =oRpR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----