Local Production, Local Consumption Storage Economics for Peer-to-Peer Systems
Kenji Saito, Eiichi Morino · 2008
Autonomy of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems requires some form of economies. Forwardable storage claims of Samsara can define a common value in computer networks, and possibly be a "commodity money" in P2P systems. However, without managing how far the claims can be forwarded, they would not form an efficient, dependable and sustainable economic chain. We propose to use i-WAT tickets to represent storage claims to form "drafts in real terms" so that a claim can be dynamically replaced by its equivalent in the vicinity, allowing the accesses to the storage to be fast and robust.