RE: [Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

[Scott Brim <[e-mail]>]

I like what Christian said. Also, perhaps we should figure out how to
unbundle services and monetize what we can.
On Sep 22, 2013 1:38 PM, "Christian Huitema" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> >> Yes. $$$. Nobody makes much/any money off email because it is
> >> so de-centralized. People who build wonderful new applications
> >> build them in a centralized way so that they can control them.
> >> And they want to control them so that they can monetize them.
> >
> > That is even true of the large email providers who are happy to
> > provide "free" email in return for being able leverage their
> > other products and/or "sell" the users and user base to
> > advertisers.
>
> It is very true that innovation can only be sustained with a revenue
> stream. But we could argue that several services have now become pretty
> much standardized, with very little additional innovation going on. Those
> services are prime candidates for an open and distributed implementation. I
> mean, could a WG design a service that provides a stream of personal
> updates and a store of pictures and is only accessible to my friends? And
> could providers make some business by selling personal servers, or maybe
> personal virtual servers? Maybe I am a dreamer, but hey, nothing ever
> happens if you don't dream of it!
>
> -- Christian Huitema
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