On 20/08/11 06:15, Tony Arcieri 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.
Hi Tony, You might be interested in this paper by some colleagues at UCL: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/14962/ Raul Landa's thesis goes into more depth: http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/19490/ Cheers, Michael _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
