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Sanjeev Gupta
ghane0 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 5 11:22:50 CEST 2013
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Peter Gervai <grinapo+ripeatlas at gmail.com>wrote: > Exactly my point. Unless the probes don't consume significantly more > resources it's there to help connectivity. If someone wants to provide > a service then s/he must constantly generate credits which results > more probes to be available for me. It causes me no harm if someone > earns money while providing me resources. > And while Stephane makes money, the system is being strengthened, to my advantage. I assume the new commercial offering will need, and hence place, probes in Africa as well, which I will use, for free! > However as others mentioned it strongly requires a well balanced > credit system to prevent large volume users (be they commercial or > not) to consume too much resource, and to prevent small individual > probe owners from starving by not being able to provide enough credits > to be able to make their own measurements. > The number of credits I get is not affected by what Stephane uses, right? And Stephane had better create as many credits as are required by customers. So it in the commercial entities self-interest to go sponsor more probes, and keep them online. > Basically that's the same as open source / open content economy: > commercial insterests have to provide resources to the others in > exchange of their (smaller) resources. (Probably there should be some > requirement to assure topologically well distributed probes from mass > users.) > The first service to use Atlas probably will not be well balanced, but the next few can. After all, there is nothing to stop me stealing^Wbeing inspired by the current proposal, and implementing it for Asia. Adam Smith was right, the baker and the butcher feed me by being selfish. -- Sanjeev Gupta +65 98551208 http://www.linkedin.com/in/ghane -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-atlas/attachments/20130905/f9a884fa/attachment.html>
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