On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 08:23 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Thu, 21 May 2009, Geoffrey Spear wrote: > > OTOH, pledges have to be public now, so the pledge would have to be > > published to take effect anyway. Agreeing in ##nomic to a non-pledge > > private contract or to a public contract (with the fact published > > later) is a different case. > > If two players agree privately to a document that includes a clause > "this is a public contract" (with the honest intent of publishing it > afterwards), do you have a private contract which later becomes > public, or no contract (until it is published)? -G.
I generally word submarine act-on-behalf contracts as "All parties to this contract consent to its being made public.", which is unambiguous as to the intent to be private now and public later. As for your example, I don't know; I'd have to look at the rules in more detail, I think. (Who knows, you might even be able to create a paradox that way; I can sort of see how it could happen, but I think it's unlikely.0 -- ais523
