In the 12 hours since I posted my letter saying "Too many design
docs!", David-Sarah has made a wiki page named NewAccountingDesign
with the current proposal. Everyone, please read that one!

On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 10:22 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> You want to be able to answer "how much does Bob store", which can only be 
> answered by a unitary authority for the relatively small group to which Bob 
> belongs.

There is no such central authority in the current design.

> If the system is truly decentralized, one cannot answer the question "how 
> much does Bob store".  One can only answer "How much does bob store with me?"

You can also ask "How much does Carol say Bob stores with her?".

See wiki:NewAccountingDesign for details.

Regards,

Zooko

wiki pages mentioned in this letter:

https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/NewAccountingDesign
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