[cap-talk] C-like Capability language

[David Mercer]

How much of the work in the agorics papers is covered by the patents
listed on the agorics, inc. website?
Things like the elevator auction, etc.  Perhaps more agoric systems
haven't been built due to patent issues?  Would the hypothetical
agoric kernel scheduler mentioned above be in violation?

-David Mercer

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:39 AM,  <lists at notatla.org.uk> wrote:
>
>  From: "Baldur Johannsson" <zarutian+cap-talk at gmail.com>
>
>> >> which uses an agoric system to allocate system resources.
>
>> Hmm.. I cant find this word ,,agoric" anywhere but
>> http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Words/a.html
>> (Agoric system). Are the voluntary transactions central? I am
>> profoundly confused.
>
> http://www.agorics.com/Library/agoricpapers.html
>
> Agoric computation will require market-compatible mechanisms for
> the allocation of processor time and storage space. Recasting
> processor scheduling as an auction process yields a flexible
> priority system. Recasting storage management as a system of
> decentralized market negotiations yields a distributed garbage
> collection algorithm able to collect unreferenced loops that
> cross trust boundaries. Algorithms that manage processor time
> and storage in ways that enable both conventional computation
> and market-based decision making will be useful in establishing
> agoric systems: they lie at the boundary between design and
> evolution. Algorithms are described in detail.
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