Wizard Rabbit Treasurer

Story told from the "I" (self) perspective, limited to first degree relationships.

• Wizard interfaces between Human and Rabbit.
• Wizards do not talk to each other (yet).
• Rabbit interfaces between Wizard and local Treasurer.
• Rabbits do talk to each other.
• Treasurer only talks to Rabbits.
• Treasurers do not talk to each other (yet).
• Sometimes, I can only talk to locals, living the same habitat. There seems to be only two others living with me then. But most of the time, many others are around, yet in different habitats, so it seems. Because when I share same habitat with others, communication is prompt and fluid. There is little or no latency when talking to others. But when I communicate with others who are in different habitats, sputter and latency kicks in. Sometimes, I don‚Äôt even get an answer. So I have a preference for quick responses over slower ones.
• Therefore, I only credit the first two quick and correct answers and discard the rest.
• I keep a list of friends and their reputation (my sociogram). I know this list is neither complete nor accurate. But it‚Äôs the only thing I‚Äôve got and it works fine. I bet my friends will have their own unique and dynamic lists.
• Some of my friends reply very prompt and correct, yet they‚Äôre not always around. And they tend to forget things rather quickly.
• Others reply a lot slower, yes really slow, but they seem to remember every thing. And they always give an answer. So they‚Äôre a lot more reliable but sluggish.
• Whenever I ask someone else to keep something for me, I do keep a unique reference to that thing (in the form of a GUID).
• I also calculate and keep a checksum for the things I ask others to keep for me so I can check the correctness of their answer. If they lie to me, I take them off my whitelist. If they lie again, I put them on my blacklist. Swindlers!
• I ask my friends about the reputation of others. My friends are the witnesses of others
• By default, a newbie gets the benefit of the doubt. They may turn out to be a very good friend. I always include about 20% of newbies, if any, when sending out requests.
• Whenever I come to live, my memory is completely blank.
• I do get a lot of credits when I am able serve others promptly, so keeping stuff in my memory cranks up my reputation quickly. So I‚Äôm eager to keep as much in my memory as possible.
• To guard against amnesia, Rabbits send out copies of parts they keep for others around on the network to other Rabbits in different habitats.
• Rabbits also give newbies the benefit of the doubt to keep copies so they can gain reputation (e.g. 8 friends and 2 newbies).
• Rabbits only increase reputation of first two responses received. Other responses are simply discarded.
• When asked, Rabbits will tell you their view on the reputation of another. The peer reputation is adjusted for communication intensity and history. That is, reputation will decay after periods of inactivity with that peer. Peer reputation is recalculated when someone asks for it. Recalculation is done based on age and intensity of previous interactions.
• When out of memory largest and oldest data is discarded first. I‚Äôm still looking for a more sophisticated method to decide on what to keep and what to throw out.
• A Treasurer never discards data that originated from local (same habitat) Rabbits (or must this be data from two degrees of separation).
• Credits are in the form of ¬•‚Ǩ$, HUGs or TYs (Thank You).
• I credit my friends with 1 TY per KB they promise to keep for me.
• I credit my friends with 10 TYs per KB that they actually give me back on my request.
• Data half-time? Or is storage leased?
• Ask me how many copies I will try to make for you.
• Sometimes, I lie about reputations of others (I either don‚Äôt keep scores or deflate or inflate other‚Äôs reputation).
• Sometimes, I lie about friends.
• My happiness is a combination of reputation, trust, number of copies stored with others, uptime, crashes (although I never know when I‚Äôve crashed since I suffer from severe amnesia).
• I can be picky by only keeping stuff from Wizards and friends.
• I keep a whitelist with peers I trust.
• I keep a blacklist with peers I never want to deal with. I completely ignore them. It‚Äôs already too bad that I am disturbed by them knocking on my door.
• Hey you! I just stored a copy of GUID! Thanks for your trust in me. I‚Äôll up you one.
• To avoid extra work for my friends, I add a hop count to my request. When it reaches zero, they can stop forwarding it. I usually set my default hop count to 3. On the other hand, I‚Äôll just take care of who to ask to keep copies myself. Others don‚Äôt have to forward my request. Saves them bandwidth and processing.
• I‚Äôve been thinking about using ‚Äúpheromone‚Äù trails lately. May come in handy, but I don‚Äôt know where and how yet.
• Normally, I just store small things with a size less than 64 KB. If you want me to store larger things, ask me before sending it. This is what I call the Big Handshake. If you send it without asking, I‚Äôll half your reputation. This is what I call the Punch. Haha :)

The Rabbit

• ‚ÄúDingggg!‚Äù Where has my memory gone?! I feel very unhappy. And this is not the first time this happens. Sometimes, the lights just turn black and I‚Äôm gone. When I wake up again, my complete memory is blank. Boy, do I feel bad. Let‚Äôs find some of my friendly and respected neighbors to get my memory back to normal again. I must talk to other rabbits and treasurers
• gets data from the wizard to pay 1 credit
• gets data from other rabbits to keep
• serves data to wizard w/i .5 s to earn 1 credit
• keeps a copy in short term memory
• stores a copy with treasurer for local long term memory
• stores a number of copies at peers to improve reliability, availability; only then feels happy and healthy
• can answer simple and complex queries
• sometimes experiences unexpected loss of memory (equal to rabbit.1)
• wakes up with empty mind, then needs to recollect info from treasurer and peers in order to meet or exceed expectations from wizard
• retrieving info from treasurer is 10x cheaper than from other rabbits
• latency in getting info from treasurer is >10x lower than from other rabbits

The Treasurer

• gets data from rabbit(s?) to store long term to earn one credit
• is much slower (10x) than a rabbit
• has no copies of data at other places
• does not suffer from sudden amnesia
• sometimes wakes up to find a real messy safe; then needs time to clean up and fix (and cannot serve rabbits and earn credits for some time)
• in very rare occasions cannot repair safe and thus needs to completely rebuild it, fully depending on the wits of rabbit(s?)