On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Tony Arcieri <tony.arci...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I don't want to get into the nitty gritty of things, but some private > BitTorrent trackers want to see what other private trackers you've been on, > a current snapshot of your current torrent client, what your ratios are, how > the other sites rate you as far as your ratio goes, etc etc (If you'd like > to talk offline about various private BitTorrent trackers I can certainly > cite examples). I think reputation could be cryptographically formalized in > the form of per-client "long chains" which provide a web of trust as to your > participation in the network as a whole over time. > > I think the whole ceremony of trying to prove to a particular private > tracker network that you are trustworthy can be formalized. I've also notice > that, upon joining one of these communities, the first thing I do is > download some popular content I'm not necessarily interested in, not at all > because I want to see it, but because it's popular and because it's popular > it can boost my site-specific ratio by downloading and serving content which > is popular within that site-specific community. > > I'd like a system where this process be automated, so that if I'm willing > to serve other users content to further my reputation as a willing > participant in the network I can trade my bandwidth for other nodes signing > my personal "block chain" and thus boosting my credibility. > To expound upon this point, let me cite a real-world system which already operates in this way: credit rating agencies. These agencies don't provide specific limits or recommendations to any given lender as to how much money they should lend. Instead, they calculate a risk score and allow individual lenders to decide whether or not they should lend money based on this risk score. I think p2p system should operate in a similar fashion, using past network knowledge to calculate the risk of allowing a particular peer to participate. However, I think the "credit rating agencies" in p2p systems can be (and rightfully should be) completely decentralized. -- Tony Arcieri
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