On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Ed Murphy wrote: > Goethe wrote: >> On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, comex wrote: >>>> I would suggest formalizing the notion of recordkeepors for individual >>>> contracts (e.g. the AAA's SoA) and instructing the Notary to give them >>>> edit privs to just their own contract. >> >> Old Agoran system: formalize a recordkeepor, then require they publish >> the contract text asap after a public request and no less frequently than >> once per quarter or so. (In between times, a ref. to a wiki or whatever >> works fine, but this way it doesn't have to be formal). > > Where this falls down in practice during Fast-Play Agora is when the > records change a lot, then (the recordkeepor gets swamped / the web > site goes down) and someone has to go back through ~2 months of messages > at once to reconstruct things.
Are you saying we should accept it as reasonable that we are playing too fast to enter a contract text into, for example, permanent court evidence when needed? If we want to ensure that we have the ability (as a court or legal system) to determine, at a arbitrary time, what a contract text is/was, then ultimately someone (officer or contract recordkeepor) needs to have this responsibility and perform said reconstruction. And I think we're figuring out that it's unreasonable to lay this on an officer. (This system can still use a wiki: for example, the contract specifies that "whenever Agora requests the contract text, a cut/paste from this wiki page will be considered to be legal and correct" and the contract can police its own members modifying the wiki). -Goethe
