[mat-wg] Using Atlas for commercial services

On Sep 5, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> stephane,
> 
> i realize that your intent is not evil.  but i fear this will not scale
> very well.  when the 42nd commercial project raises the load/traffic so
> that research is no longer viable and these dinky things are overloaded,
> we'll get "but those 41 commercial products use it, not letting me do so
> is unfair restraint of trade."
> 
> "yes dear, your picking that flower would not really harm the park.  but
> if everyone did it ..."
> 
> randy

+1 

In principle, I don't mind the idea of commercial services using Atlas.  But I don't see a good way to manage the load.