-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 07/26/2013 12:15 PM, Guido Witmond wrote: > > You should read Binding Chaos by Heather Marsh.... Plenty of > answers there. > http://georgiebc.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/binding-chaos/ > *** I promised to translate it. I need to take the time. > > I wrote about it on the libtech list in: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-July/010335.html > *** > Brilliant! Allow me to <quote>
The problem with the web is that is favours a central distribution model and forgoes geographical caching. For example, if I read an interesting blog and send to URL to a friend in the same room, the data that forms the blog has to travel all the way from the original site - over all the same paths - a second time for my friend. Just so he can have an identical copy. He gets an identical copy of the important bits that mattered: the blog. He might get different bits that don't matter, the advertisements. If we had an easy way for me to transmit the blog to my friend, the important bits would have an almost zero cost of transport while the unimportant bits need the expensive path </quote> It reminded me the model for bandwidth allocation on large trunks: if you're an ISP, your incentive is to maximize your available bandwidth, in order to get allocated more bandwidth faster. Again, a model that favors a few giant operators rather than many tiny ones. So there, you have it: cutting the middleman by enforcing peer-to-peer distribution. Notice how the concept of cloud, and "web apps" do exactly the opposite. Unless the app in UnHosted. == hk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJR8s/pAAoJEEgGw2P8GJg9wiUP/1SwPPrwTMDGrjts+gzlc+qe U5s3J9sMyCA8v8kgc9oXPvInKuyb8Gd9bj1fkHlBtn5Pb6GWyiOWiY9rV5ryt4Ma qhBqgpeYKw3r+lpVWCYBtVes/UcL11bb9lHCeHlJA3vWVuyjRoTOhK6ItdcVTeaz LCk463kLE7NJt5pdE6XNBU9b+YArPFmdLN0gbm35667V9XUEnNarIo3WFMCvEAHW 59dPaXQQO7aZqlthG0XyWF+LrA/M9lMtV3VyXivceztaijDkn0LuZYEMw0UJJaL5 lg5gdU6ThaLG7Hag+S4phLmnet3FAMU/SxWDewxF0HkmjPWA+LEB4wWj+oSzKNhv nu1k3uCGv95+/AEtXJ3BNFg1IVD8eRHWy4Sbqg56SkT0oHUqA6n1Vew2vosT/tz3 iBeA+v5FSQWKF4IML+zL3lSK0ueMrlWek3IqjsrPKwKaWKprESbVQ+tMlN9QZGKH t+DgYnbuh40GF0kG58lgaku8Si9hpK42jEMWIcgVXNQlr6xWiiWjqg4ES5EFPCiQ nhKPzonIpJNKt1udpdQp+fJqcIx4tBqAudZnpqSl9uuUWzgArM5h2JpCauHAvUpU otBDemrWxEPefSgrOAQkKitnjenlxIpwIujHZ4+gfKnYNx0gbwZsysNfJ/t5zsLB udd9VPMXGzRSjPPtwe5S =MDQD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
