Vat Location Service, Meta Tracking, mutable namespaces (was: [E-Lang] A more critical question (was: an example impatience policy))

[Karp, Alan]

I just read Zooko's metatracking page and realized that his system is very
similar to the e-speak advertising service.  It appears that Zooko is far
ahead in the area of scalability, data integrity, and what e-speak calls
"community formation", the selection of places to search.  On the other
hand, e-speak appears to be ahead in the representation of metadata, search
mechanisms, and the security aspects.  Sounds like a natural collaboration
if the parties involved have the bandwidth.

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