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NIP-0009

Dynamic Corridor Pricing

STATUS
DRAFT
TYPE
CORE
AUTHORS
NIL Research
CREATED
2024-08-27
VERSION
0.2.0

1. ABSTRACT

Explores pricing corridor usage based on real-time compression likelihood, so that obligations routed through corridors with poor netting prospects reflect their higher expected capital displacement cost.

2. MOTIVATION

Not all corridors compress equally well. A corridor with dense bidirectional traffic imposes near-zero marginal capital displacement cost; a thin, one-directional corridor imposes close to full notional cost. Static pricing does not reflect this difference.

3. TERMINOLOGY

Expected CDR — a corridor-level Capital Displacement Ratio forecast computed from trailing epoch history.

4. SPECIFICATION

Draft proposal: attach a corridor-level expected CDR (see NIL-R02) computed from trailing epoch history, and expose it to intent submitters prior to compilation as an advisory cost signal. No binding fee mechanism is specified at this stage.

5. INVARIANTS

Draft — the exposed CDR signal is advisory only; no binding fee mechanism is specified at this stage.

6. FAILURE CONDITIONS

Overly granular CDR disclosure risks allowing inference about aggregate obligation flow between two domains; disclosure granularity remains unresolved.

7. SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS

Exposing historical corridor CDR could allow inference about aggregate obligation flow between two domains. Disclosure granularity is an open question for this proposal to resolve before advancing to ACTIVE.

8. REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION

The reference implementation is the NIL-0 simulation network. No production implementation of this proposal exists; behavior described here is normative for the simulation only.