Using economics rather than comp sci as the rationale makes a lot more sense to me. There are a lot of economic scenarios where the actors have to be truly independent.
One flavor of this situation is when the actors are already independent and are going to stay that way, yet the comp sci needs to find a way to knit them together. Consolidating your identity across multiple social networks is an example problem, and OpenID is an example solution. But then the issue is built on internet standards rather than automated network forming software using something like a DHT. John Nilsson wrote: > Privacy and anonymity is not the only reason to prevent central control. > I tend to think that the economic reasons are more important. Mostly two > economic reasons. > > 1. Central control means central decisions. And centralized control over > an economy (allocation of scarce resources in a network) is often worse > than a free economy. > > 2. Central control menas that those in control can transfer value from > those without control to themselves. (Which actually just follows from > 2) _______________________________________________ p2p-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers
