On 11/23/09 22:34, coderman wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Rayservers <rayservers@gmail.com> wrote:
... Incentives in Networking
Too long has the community of anonymity software writers ignored the tragedy of the commons. If each tor router could advertise a price for amount of megabytes transferred, it would be a self healing system.
why is monetary compensation required for fairness? the bittorrent protocol with tit for tat is far from perfect but it is also the dominant protocol on the net and encourages fairness without monetary settlement. there are other examples.
lucre is but one of many incentives, why do you assume it is the only solution?
I said price and I also said tokens on another node. It could be peanuts or oil or music or whatever - perhaps donuts. Exchange value for value. At the end of that chain... I go buy a donut. Sure, you can trade points, hashcash, torrentpoints... how do I, who run an ISP, go buy a donut? tit-for-that. lol. Cheers, ---Venkat.