[chatmasta]

Just want to say this has absolutely nothing to do with the research I did for my senior thesis [0] which was quite popular on HN when I posted it a few years ago.

We never moved beyond the research / theory phase, which is admittedly frustrating, but we never intended to scam anyone.

That said, the idea of incentivizing routing is one I think about every day. In college I ran a successful business selling proxy servers, which opened my eyes to the unoptimized economics of small/medium scale IP transit. Major cloud providers are making a huge racket by charging for transfer rather than capacity. This presents an opportunity for a marketplace.

My next product is going to be a global L3 routing-fabric-as-a service with developer pluggable routing and filtering rules. I'm going to bootstrap it by offering outbound http proxies with hourly charging and an API. Then I will develop the more generalized routing fabric, with the eventual goal of creating a marketplace for bandwidth and routing.

If that piques anyone's interest, feel free to email me - address in profile.

[0] http://dedis.cs.yale.edu/dissent/papers/hotpets14-torpath-ab...