Super-connectors for robust network
Subject: Super-connectors for robust network
From: Clark Robinson <robinsonchicago@gmail.com>
Date: 7/23/10, 22:08
To: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com>, Scott Mintz <scott.w.mintz@gmail.com>, mano.singham@case.edu, tessig@me.com

It will be useful to discuss (by e-mail) what adjustments we may want to make to the network structure in light of Todd's comment, and adjust the widget requirements statements accordingly.


TE: A robust network needs some but not too many "super-connectors"? You don't want a pyramid, of course. But you also don't want a flat homogenous web. I don't understand the incentives from the current description well enough to believe this will work. 

BB: Indeed, we want neither, and we're willing to make any changes to the schematic in order to prevent any homogenous web that might emerge under the proposed system. My thinking has been that individual participants would find it cumbersome to make too many connections due to the heavy resulting stream of information that would entail. Let me know what you think.

 Clark