[p2p-hackers] A globally distributed peer-to-peer data archive

James A. Donald cipher at jim.com
Fri Aug 19 18:27:18 PDT 2011


Here is a proposal as to how Tahoe, or a fork thereof, might be made 
"get what you give"

Each agent issues currency representing the right to store data on its 
servers, and transport data to and from its servers.

Each agent attempts to exchange its currency with other's currencies, 
attempting, like a bittorrent agent, to get the best deal, though with 
much longer memory than a bittorrent agent.  Bittorrent agents only care 
about what a given IP number has done for them lately.  The Tahoe agent 
would need to remember what a given public key has done for them over 
time, in order to assess what a currency is actually worth, how reliably 
it can be converted into actual storage or actual bandwidth, and whether 
that actual storage is apt to go away.

If an agent has a diverse collection of currencies, it can then store 
and access the data tahoe style.

When someone reads a file, the bandwidth costs may be charged against 
the entity reading, the entity publishing, or some combination thereof, 
according to the settings on that file.  So *some* files can be read by 
non contributors, by agents that have no currency.

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