Robert Hettinga wrote:
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...
DEFCON IV was well before FC97. This was an issue I was chasing Eric Hughes on. As far as I understand it, this was unpublished in any form, just presented, but many people have saw it (must have been a big conference :-). If anyone knows any different, please let me know (except, "get in touch with Eric" because that was not resultful). -- iang systemics.com FP: 1189 4417 F202 5DBD 5DF3 4FCD 3685 FDDE on pgp.com