1. Arnaud Sahuguet
My $0.02

2. What a wonderful world it would be if
You had to pay to send
No more SPAM
You had to pay to use Google
More time spent answering queries
You had to pay to do a DNS query
Better quality service
You had to pay to invoke a web service
You had to pay to access content
You had to pay to get an IP address
You had to pay to synchronize your Palm

3. Benefits Would break the Internet monopoly Would prevent DoS
ISP gets the money
Content providers rely on advertising
Would prevent DoS
Incentives
For people to produce high-quality content
For people to share their content with others (GUPster!)
For people to provide new services that require some infrastructure
Beach web cam
WiFi access points

4. What is needed Cheap micro-payment service ($0.0x)
3 challenges
Cost of managing payments as low as possible
Cost of forging currency higher than value of currency
Making it transparent for parties (competition with subscription model)
No need for breakthrough in crypto
Need for smart “transaction” processing

5. These $0.02 have been generously contributed by Arnaud, Bell Labs research and Lucent Technologies.