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Insight/ForesightPetri Pöyhönen
Marko AHTISAARI
http://www.aula.cc/~marko/
Utterance, Accreditation, Distribution
Ny nameless friend writes
.........I wanted to call everyone's attention to a nascent peer-to-peer project
that seems to be very interesting, especially from our perspective. I
met Christian Grothoff at DefCon this year and I was able to talk to him
a bit about the system. It is intended to be "a peer-to-peer framework
for anonymous distributed file-sharing." The system is interesting
because it incorporates a reputation system by which nodes determine how
to allocate their own resources. Unlike Mojo Nation, for example, it
does not rely on a trusted centralized entity. The system was designed
from the ground up to be resistant to malicious nodes. It needed to be,
because it was designed from the start as free software. Below is a link
to a paper which describes the "economic aspects" of the network.
By the way, Christian Grothoff has expressed a willingness to come to
NYU for a talk. Could this be something we could sponsor with the CS
department? (probably just travel costs from Chicago).
GNUnet -- An Excess Based Economy: http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/download/ebe.ps
Other papers by the GNUnet group: http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/papers.php3
Yochai wants to limit the peer production analysis to public goods and not to claim other economic goods.
Ease of accessing relatively optimal labour.Decline in transaction costs inherent to the coordination of that labour.
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