However, the cooperating overhead will increase with the number of cooperating neighbors in each set.
There's certainly some truth to that dynamic, as PSHBB is already running in a number of cooperating platform implementations including FeedBurner, WordPress, and even FriendFeed, where Slatkin is active in tracking user issues.
Still, the issue of who cooperated with the secret services and who did not is a moral touchstone.
Here are the main underlying issues: (1) the way of recombining the signals at the receivers; (2) the optimal number of cooperation rounds; (3) the way of cooperating (symmetrically or asymmetrically, which receiver should start cooperating in the latter case); and (4) the influence of spectral resources.
Particularly divisive was the issue of whether to cooperate with Sinn Féin given the IRA's failure to begin decommissioning.
He was suggesting that after years of dodging inspectors on many issues, and cooperating on others, he was now prepared to let outsiders see enough to convince themselves that Iran's intentions are peaceful.
Accordingly, China has played a constructive role with regard to the piracy issue by way of (1) cooperating with the multinational task force to combating piracy and (2) simultaneously taking steps to adopt a comprehensive approach to maritime security.
"Without some effective measures of defusing this issue, Pakistan will cooperate less rather than more with us, and we won't be able to achieve our goals in Afghanistan," said Vali Nasr, a former State Department official who specialized in Pakistan.
More importantly for our proposed scenario is the legal issue in case some of the cooperating entities would access and not share legal content.
