the 1000 recipient stamps. Each of the 1000 recipients recognize
a coin wrapped in their own stamp and opens the coin and attempts
to redeem it with the bank, which only redeems the first such coin,
but is alerted to attempted fraud and revokes the sender's account.
OK, that sounds like the usual micropayment token cancelling
bottleneck that nobody knows how to scale.
Nonetheless, if people think they have a viable design for e-postage
or anything else, I really wish you would write it up as a draft.
Even if it has fatal flaws and turns out to be a dead end, at the very
least you'll document where you end up if you go down that road so we
don't have to have the same fripping argument every year.
The IRTF has a new RFC process that is quite unlike the IETF's. Some
drafts (like my DNSBL one) have the consensus of the whole RG, but
it's quite OK to advance a draft that only a few people like, so long
as there's a group of people who agree that that it's interesting, and
it satisfies a few administrative rules that won't be an issue here.
So get to work.
R's,
John
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