2005-04-27
Costs of network participation

The above illustration represents six distinct cost positions in the transfer of dW3 from one agent to another. The flow is simplified here as being mono-directional, though that is often not the case.
For the W3 supplying agent
- C1 - The static costs of self-produced, self-contained W3, assumed by an organism prior to, or in ignorance of any network capabilities.
- C2 - The costs of adapting specific W3 for existence on a digital network
- C3 - The overall costs of network participation
- C4 - The costs of finding and obtaining dW3 on a digital network and adapting it to an existence in the consuming agent's self-contained data store.
- C5 - The static costs of self-contained W3, assumed by an agent prior to or in ignorance of any network capabilities
- C6 - The overall costs of network participation
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