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Re: [Din] Updated charter proposal

Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de> Sun, 15 July 2018 04:20 UTC

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From: Toerless Eckert <tte@cs.fau.de>
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Subject: Re: [Din] Updated charter proposal
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On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 03:58:08AM +0200, Christian.Hoeppler wrote:
> On 07/15/2018 01:10 AM, Toerless Eckert wrote:
> > You are comparing a system (CDN) with one of its aspect (control),
> > that was not the question.
> > 
> > Would you call the overall CDN non-decentralized, and if so, why ?
> 
> Well, I'd not call it decentralized, if an essential aspect or subsystem
> is highly centralized.

So you would call a composite system distributd if _SOME_ aspects
are decentralized, and decentralized if _ALL_ aspects are decentralized ?

Aka: i think this is all dfficult and will take a long time to agree on,
so bad idea trying to define scope of charter on such ambiguously interpreted
terms.

> Cf. https://news.earn.com/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e for
> an approach how decentralization may be quantified.

Nice, thanks. And blockchains are simple systems composed from few
functions with little structure (compared to a typical network and
all its L2..L9 functions).

Cheers
    Toerless

> Best,
> Chris
> 
> > On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 06:20:19PM -0400, Carsten Bormann wrote:
> >> CDNs are a textbook example of a widely distributed system with highly centralized control.
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