Re: Fwd: Financial Cryptography Update: The Digital Silk Road (DSR)
David Young <[email protected]>
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Todd, On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 02:17:14PM -0800, Todd Boyle wrote: > 1. you seem to discard my argument that capacity on > a mesh is a scarce resource and should be viewed the > same as other economic resources. Read your comment No. > 2. at bottom you seem to reject my argument that wherever > there is a valuable resource in a commons, it will be exploited > by abusers if there is neither governance rules or a price > charged to the abuser. I appreciate your point about SPAM No. I disagree that the solution to the allocation problem is *the* critical thing that stands in the way of large-scale urban meshes. Supposing the allocation problem challenges us in the future, when there *is such a thing* as a large-scale urban mesh, I am not convinced that a market-based solution will be either necessary, desirable, or feasible. Possibly we disagree whether you have made the argument that a market-based solution beats alternatives---you mention governance. The burning questions that I have about the allocation issue is "under what conditions does bandwidth-scarcity arise?" and "what is a fair allocation of scarce bandwidth?" I see "how do we achieve the fair allocation?" as secondary to the first questions. Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies [email protected] Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933 _______________________________________________ CU-Wireless mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cu.groogroo.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/cu-wireless Project Page: http://cuwireless.ucimc.org