[E-impact] Re: Looking for examples of how standards or models allocate responsibility for "shared" infrastructure when designing greener web applications

[Chris Adams <[e-mail]>]

Hi Catherine,

I think I and others in the list would welcome the links because in many cases, I think there’s prior work we can use in how people allocate responsibility and cost in other fields that would inform convos like this. 

We’ve spoke about shared utilities like electricity before, and I appreciate you mentioning the blockchain and DLT one as a decent example, because when I’ve looked at it before, a lot of analysis would focus on a single node, without really accounting for the cost of maintaining consensus across a share all the other nodes in the network. 

I don’t have institution access, but others on this list do, and in the worst case scenario I can contact authors directly.

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> On 16. Jul 2025, at 18:24, [e-mail] wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris -
> Interesting question - we built some models for this when I was a fellow at the WEF but around the shared infrastructure of blockchain and DLT.   I also wrote a few papers on it for IEEE - happy to share or take a chat offline if you like.  
> 
> Effectively, we built models to balance economic, environmental and social impacts (externalities) of digital.  It is a complex mix of econ, environmental measurements so a blend of engineering and economics.
> 
> You can drop me a line separately if you think it could be interesting.
> 
> KR,
> Cathy
>