Will Google Wave enforce a quota system on users like Gmail? How can this be done?
If you kicked the tires in Google Wave, you might have also noticed the image to the right which shows some ghosted options for transferring files to a wave. There are similar options under images, some of which are not ghosted. This prompted me to consider storage capacity for waves, particularly public waves. Presumably, Google is not planning on allowing people unlimited wave storage. Gmail doesn’t.
So, assuming they implement a quota system, how would that work? You create a wave. Your friends dump files and videos into it. They are stored in the wave, I believe. Who owns the wave for quota purposes? Specifically, I was thinking about public waves. I create a wave about the latest gadget and 40 people upload HD videos into the wave. Are they counted against my quota? Alternatively, are those videos stored outside of the wave in their own directories? If so, what happens to the wave if they delete the HD videos? Placeholders?
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