[cap-talk] Capability accounting

[Norman Hardy]

On Jun 22, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Ian G wrote:

> John Carlson wrote:
>>>
>>> As I hale from the digital money side, I see "accounting"
>>> as a poor copy of digital money.  Although it is interesting,
>>> I probably would always model it as a money problem.  Then,
>>> the accounting view tends to disappear.
>>
>>
>> I tend to agree with the money idea.  How much does a capability
>> cost?  If connected with client side certificates, we can get the
>> client certficate, and charge per message or for bytes in a message.
>
> Yes, one of the problems being, that the cost of a
> "client side certificate" operation is approximately
> that of a "payment operation".  To use an example
> familiar to some here, I think some of Mark Miller's
> examples show a payment system built out of E Caps,
> where one capability operation is one payment, approx.
>
> Such "expense" leads to much fruitless spinning of
> wheels in the direction of "micropayments" which
> generally reduce to "payment system couple to
> accounting system for aggregation."
>
> This would be one of those cases where the cost of
> charging introduces costs of its own in excess of
> the positive value of allocation (e.g., one has
> entered a permanent loss scenario.)

DSR <http://cap-lore.com/Economics/DSR/> can count
the cost of passing a packet in about two machine instructions.

> iang
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