Re: [Taler] (docs) taler-in-a-nutshell.txt

[Christian Grothoff]

Some comments...

1) Your nutshell is missing the Taler auditor, very crucial entity --
otherwise people tend to wonder why anyone should 'trust' the exchange.

2) Of course you can include our existing diagram(s) in any way you see
fit. Note that it omits the auditor to keep it 'simple'. We have others
that include the auditor, but not the banks.

3) Where to put it? I guess we could add an 'introduction' chapter, that
describes all of the components and also points to the various chapters
that document those in detail (links to exchange, auditor, merchant,
wallet manual chapters, Taler is a protocol, hence API spec chapter,
Taler is Free Sofware, hence developer chapter, etc.).

My 2 cents

Christian

On 2/10/21 12:56 AM, Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> 
> Please find attached taler-in-a-nutshell.txt, a wip overview
> (very brief) of how Taler works, based entirely on diagram on
> figure 4.1 (page 75) of Florian's PhD thesis.
> 
> 
> 
> The intended audience is complete newbies (like myself).
> 
> My questions are:
> 
> (a) Is this accurate?  If not, what could be improved?
> 
> (b) Where to put this in the docs tree?  Can we include that
>     (excellent) diagram as well?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any feedback/guidance on this.
>

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