[2667] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Settlements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU)
Sun Apr 5 23:18:04 1992
Date: Sun, 5 Apr 92 23:16:59 EDT
From: drw@BOURBAKI.MIT.EDU
To: com-priv@psi.com
One possibility is the ultimate market: When my host wants to send a
packet, it effectively broadcasts: "What am I bid to get this packet
to 18.70.0.100?"
I guess that really wouldn't work, but the possibility of implementing
nearly any possible economic model is rather intoxicating, isn't it?
Dale Worley Dept. of Math., MIT drw@math.mit.edu