At 10:05 PM 6/6/96 -0400, Jeff Barber wrote:
Or are you saying that each IP packet will have an appropriately sized digital cash payment attached? That seems like too much overhead. And besides, that contradicts your idea that the user would explicitly approve each wallet access.
It gets even worse if you're an ISP, you obviously can't sit there and approve each session that goes by (even if you could distinguish higher level session boundaries which you won't be able to do). Are you just to assume at the end of the day that everything worked perfectly and you received enough revenue to cover your costs without knowing anything about the payment/usage profiles of any of your customers? And how is the ISP's network provider to know how much to charge the ISP?
I think I'm starting to sound like a broken record, so I'll stop with this post. Some of the issues you are discussing are addressed by the Digital Silk Road proposal from Norm Hardy and Dean Tribble. See: http://www.agorics.com/agorics/dsr.html Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bill Frantz | The CDA means | Periwinkle -- Computer Consulting (408)356-8506 | lost jobs and | 16345 Englewood Ave. frantz@netcom.com | dead teenagers | Los Gatos, CA 95032, USA