On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arci...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps "you get what you give" is the wrong description for what I'm > thinking of. How about "pay it forward?" When one peer asks for some data > from another, or asks to store part of a file, the sender can examine the > recipient's signature chain, possibly comparing it to others, and based on > that decide if it's willing to donate bandwidth or storage in order to help > it out.
You might find Samsara's "claims" relevant here. Long chains are problematic, but it's a clever primitive. There may be more recent work in this area that I'm not aware of: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.114.3963&rep=rep1&type=pdf Alen _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers