[freehaven-cvs] fixing up section 5 (mojo nation section now gone)

[arma@seul.org (Roger Dingledine)]

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fixing up section 5 (mojo nation section now gone)


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 participation, publically quantifying and ranking generosity creates an
 incentive to participate. Although incentives of public recognition and
 public good don't fit in our model very well, they are important because
-to date 
-node operators come from. As discussed above, reputation can enter the
+they help explain most actual current node operators.
+As discussed above, reputation can enter the
 utility function indirectly or directly (when agents value their reputation
-as a good itself). If we modify the function presented above to consider
-reputation, we will find an even higher incentive for certain agents to act
-as nodes.
+as a good itself).
 
 If we publish a list of mixes ordered by safety (based on number of messages
 each message is expected to be mixed with), the high-sensitivity users will
@@ -876,29 +874,27 @@
 
 More generally, a mix that chooses a frequent batching time may get lots of
 messages from the low sensitivity people, and thus end up providing \emph{%
-better} anonymity than one that fires only infrequently. Is a message from a
-high sensitivity sender ''better'' than a message from a low sensitivity
-sender? Certainly a dummy message which ends at a mix is ''worse'' than a
-message that ends at an actual recipient.
-
-\item  \emph{Micropayments for service}. Mojo Nation \cite{mojo} was a peer-to-peer
-design for robustly distributing resources (e.g. file sharing). It employed
-a digital cash system, called \emph{mojo}, to help protect against abuse of
-the system. In addition to the usual operations of publish and retrieve,
-users could also pay nodes to indirect traffic through them, both so they
-can participate in the system from behind NATs and so they can gain some
-measure of anonymity. Participants in the system pay mojo to other
-participants in exchange for a service that uses resources. Thus Mojo Nation
-reduces the potential for damage from resource flooding attacks. Further,
-this credit and reputation system allows the interactions to be streamlined
-based on trust built up from past experience.
+better} anonymity than one that fires only infrequently.
 
-While Mojo Nation's currency design was a fascinating idea for building a
-stable economic ecosystem, the system ultimately fell apart due to more
-mundane concerns such as usability and lack of funding. Even if it had
-succeeded to the point of being able to offer anonymity services, though,
-there would have been many more problems to face. We detail some of these in
-the next section.
+%\item  \emph{Micropayments for service}. Mojo Nation \cite{mojo} was
+%a peer-to-peer system for robustly distributing resources (e.g. file
+%sharing). It employed a digital cash system, called \emph{mojo}, to
+%help prevent abusive freeloading. Participants in the system paid mojo
+%to other participants in exchange for a service that uses resources.
+%In addition to the usual operations of `publish' and `retrieve', users
+%could also pay nodes to indirect traffic through them, both so they could
+%participate in the system from behind NATs and so they could gain some
+%measure of anonymity. Thus Mojo Nation reduced the potential for damage
+%from resource flooding attacks. Further, this credit and reputation
+%system allows the interactions to be streamlined based on trust built
+%up from past experience.
+%
+%While Mojo Nation's currency design was a fascinating idea for building a
+%stable economic ecosystem, the system ultimately fell apart due to more
+%mundane concerns such as usability and lack of funding. Even if it had
+%succeeded to the point of being able to offer anonymity services, though,
+%there would have been many more problems to face. We detail some of these in
+%the next section.
 \end{enumerate}
 
 \section{A few more roadblocks}

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