On Thu, 21 May 2009, Alex Smith wrote: > 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.
That's unambiguous as to whether a private contract MAY be published (e.g. as evidence); it's not unambiguous on whether the contract switch can be set to Public. -G.
