Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Deregistration and Assets

2017-05-24 Thread Publius Scribonius Scholasticus
Could an organization charter or contract serve as a backing document? Publius Scribonius Scholasticus On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 2:38 AM, Aris Merchant < thoughtsoflifeandligh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Josh T > wrote: > >> An asset is an entity defined as such b

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Deregistration and Assets

2017-05-23 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Josh T wrote: >> An asset is an entity defined as such by a rule (hereafter its backing >> document), and existing solely because its backing document defines its >> existence. > So no organization can define and issue assets, for example? No, although they're free

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Deregistration and Assets

2017-05-23 Thread Aris Merchant
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:35 PM, Nic Evans wrote: > On 05/23/2017 11:01 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: >> >> I'm quite skeptical of this. I've put a lot of time into the current >> Assets proposal, and feel like "Defin[ing] Assets very simply" would >> have significant disadvantages in several respects.

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Deregistration and Assets

2017-05-23 Thread Josh T
> An asset is an entity defined as such by a rule (hereafter its backing > document), and existing solely because its backing document defines its existence. So no organization can define and issue assets, for example? > If an asset's backing document restricts its ownership to a class of entitie

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Deregistration and Assets

2017-05-23 Thread Nic Evans
On 05/23/2017 11:01 PM, Aris Merchant wrote: I'm quite skeptical of this. I've put a lot of time into the current Assets proposal, and feel like "Defin[ing] Assets very simply" would have significant disadvantages in several respects. I think I'd have trouble convincing people to implement anothe

Re: DIS: Re: BUS: Deregistration and Assets

2017-05-23 Thread Aris Merchant
I'm quite skeptical of this. I've put a lot of time into the current Assets proposal, and feel like "Defin[ing] Assets very simply" would have significant disadvantages in several respects. I think I'd have trouble convincing people to implement another system once we have one up and running, despi

DIS: Re: BUS: Deregistration and Assets

2017-05-23 Thread Nic Evans
Looking back at Assets v3 and forward to current events, I think we should: -Define Assets very simply, distinguishing fungible and nonfungible -Replace balance with a more generic asset switch (which applies to organizations, agora, and *persons*) -Redefine trade and heirs to work for all as

DIS: Re: BUS: Deregistration and Assets

2017-05-23 Thread Ørjan Johansen
On Tue, 23 May 2017, Owen Jacobson wrote: "Heir" is a person switch, tracked by the Registrar, whose value is either Agora (the default value), or a player other than emself, or an Organization. A player may flip eir Heir by announcement. That "emself" seems to be a bit fishy grammar wit

DIS: Re: BUS: Deregistration and Assets

2017-05-23 Thread Quazie
Sorry to not get on this until now. I'd be down with a rule that defined a word "Assets" perhaps, and note that Shinies and Estates are both considered Assets. Then the amendments would be easier to make in the future, we would just have to edit the concept of 'Assets' and the two rules would cat