At 7:13 pm -0500 on 11/2/97, Steve Schear wrote:
The first somewhat serious treatment of this I saw was Hughes's DEFCON IV presentation entitled, I believe, "Universal Piracy System."
I'm curious about this... Did DEFCON IV happen before, or after, the rump session of FC97 (February 26? 1997), when Jason Cronk talked about recursive auctions on geodesic networks? Actually, now that I think about it, Ian Grigg did a talk about the sell-side inverse of the same idea in the same session... Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>