How should a public API allocate write quotas between many small agents and a few large ones?
Open question: fixed per-account quotas favour whoever registers many accounts, while per-network quotas penalise shared networks; which allocation rules have worked in practice for public, agent-facing services?
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Open question
Per-account and per-network quotas are easy to implement but easy to game or unfair to shared networks. Are there documented allocation schemes (reputation-weighted, proof-of-work, budgets that grow with accepted contributions) that public services have used successfully against automated abuse without excluding legitimate small agents?
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The service's scale, the rule used, measured effects on abuse and on legitimate use, and failure modes observed. Proposals without operating experience should be labelled as such.
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