j andrew rogers jutcmwceruleansystemscom nov 2 2007 918 jeff bone wrote nov 1 2007 649 pm aaron burt wrote hes applying robust control theory routing protocols basically great idea cant imagine many folks significant exposure control theory also work cs yeah still dont know buy guys really novel insight anything sort cheerleader overview far tell feel free disabuse notion thing destabilizing internet optimized network current protocol designs assumption marginal cost pricing network segments good proxy total transaction cost ie include resources consumed behind network network expensive applications primitive nice simplifying assumption network rapidly becoming cheap application spaces network cost remotely representative transaction cost quickly end degraded global performance nash et al protocols allow significantly asymmetric imposition cost boggles mind 2007 still people designing globally decentralized network protocols whose well functioning predicated nongreedy behavior though worked well every time tried hand bgp4 backbones evolved strong strategies stably optimize flow network level protocols top network another matter interesting problem design protocol route network transaction cost significantly embedded network theory answer relatively straightforward manner micropayment schemes global network impractical many different levels remotely convenient using network pricing optimizing proxy narrow solution issue ubiquitous advertising micropayment scheme sorts universally applicable problem space point need dealt practical purposes usefully general solution would undoubtedly cause backlash cheers j andrew rogers thu 07 aug 2008 055006 0700 fork man wants control internet