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Re: Why are we here? What are our goals?

2004-01-29 16:06:13

Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
    -- enhanced tracing mechanisms

This brings to mind privacy and anonimity. Should they be on the list as well? How do we balance the tracing requirement with the need for privacy and anonimity?

    -- economic mechanisms (postage, attention bonds)

One of the reason why the Internet works so well as a communications medium, is because it is cheaper than other mediums. Do we really want to introduce artificial costs into the system?

Yakov


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Yakov Shafranovich / asrg <at> shaftek.org
SolidMatrix Technologies, Inc. / research <at> solidmatrix.com
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