On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 12:50 PM, comex<[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't think that would work as it would require acting on behalf to >> create the public contract. > > The parties to a contract can agree to it secretly and have it become > a public contract upon one of them publishing the contract and a list > of its parties without having to act on behalf of the other parties to > join it.
Here's an example (not a real contract. Really!): 1. This is a private contract called the Order of the Evil Eye, whose members are known to each other and whose purpose is to Dominate Agora. Full membership of N members should remain secret, etc. 2. Under certain circumstances, OEE members need to act on behalf of each other [circumstances detailed here]. They SHALL NOT switch the following contracts' Disclosure to Public unless those (secret) conditions are met. Subcontract A: The Disclosure of this contract can be set to public by Person A. Person A can act on behalf of Person B to do X. Subcontract B: ... [you would actually need either (N choose 2) or 2^N of these for each member pairing, what a headache to accomplish something simple!] Compare the Easy Way: "As permitted by the Rules, I publish the following clause of a private contract that includes myself and the grantee as members, and I act on behalf of em to...", [along with a rules clause that says the grantee has a certain time to protest this if it's wrong]. -G.
