Re: e-postage stamps, was Welcome to the new(ish) ASRG list

On March 17, 2013 at 14:09 [email protected] (John R. Levine) wrote:
 > > > The primary issue I see with any payment-type solution is that it
 > > > advocates a big change in an existing ecosystem that many vendors simply
 > > > will not support.
 > >
 > > How would you know they wouldn't support it?
 > >
 > > How could you possibly know this?
 > 
 > Um, because we talk to them, and have a pretty good idea how much a 
 > micropayment system that has to handle billions of transactions a day 
 > would cost?

So 5 or so years ago you would've valued their opinion on whether they
would ever advertise on a social network?

As I said, they jump on whatever bandwagon seems to be working which
is completely reasonable.

It's simply not a measurable fact, or just asserting it based on
hearsay isn't a measurement.

As to billions of transactions what about the DNS system? Can't
possibly work?

There are ways to scale down the number of actual transactions,
decentralize etc.

For example given a cryptographic stamp and an ISP's motivation the
ISP could verify each outgoing stamp used by a customer before letting
it out since in theory they're the ones who issued those stamps, much
like they might issue IP addresses and block any originating from w/in
their network which isn't part of their re-delegation blocks.


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        -Barry Shein

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