[tahoe-dev] organizing the notes about accounting/quotas/invitations

[James A. Donald]

On 2012-03-23 2:23 AM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
> Folks:
>
> I was writing a note to the Tamias ¹ researcher, Jean Lorchat, and pointing
> out how Tamias seems to be at least partially exploring the same design space
> as our "accounting" project and some other ideas we have sketched out. I
> wanted to give them a link to the current state of play in accounting, but
> there are too many documents! Someone who understands this stuff please tell
> me which point of entry is authoritative and recent, and if the other stuff
> should be deleted/archived or what.
>
>   • #666 ; probably the right place to have an authoritative,
> up-to-date point of entry ; referenced from wiki:AccountingDesign
>   • accounting-overview.txt ² ; last touched substantively about 3
> years ago ; referenced from #666
>   • wiki:AccountingDesign ³ ; last touched about 3 years ago ;
> referenced from #666
>   • wiki:QuotaManagement ⁴ ; last touched substantively about 4 years ago
>   • old-accounts-pubkey.txt ⁵ ; last touched substantively about 4
> years ago ; referenced from wiki:AccountingDesign
>   • old-accounts-introducer.txt ⁶ ; last touched substantively about 4
> years ago ; referenced from wiki:AccountingDesign
>   • post to tahoe-dev by Brian entitled "Accounting, 2010 edition" ⁷ ;
> posted December 2010 ; referenced from wiki:Ostrom
>   • wiki:Ostrom ⁸ ; last touched substantively about 10 months ago
>
> Regards,
>
> Zooko
>
> ¹ https://tamias.iijlab.net/
> ² https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/proposed/accounting-overview.txt
> ³ https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/AccountingDesign
> ⁴ https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/QuotaManagement
> ⁵ https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/proposed/old-accounts-pubkey.txt
> ⁶ https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/docs/proposed/old-accounts-introducer.txt
> ⁷ https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-December/005748.html
> ⁸ https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/Ostrom
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I notice that the accounting system is still centralized, which is of 
course the low hanging fruit - we cannot let the best be the enemy of 
the good enough.  However a centralized accounting system means one has 
to have a lot of small tahoe storage systems, rather than one big 
storage system, which significantly limits the benefits obtained by m of 
n storage.