On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 11:03 -0700, Kerim Aydin wrote: > 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.
What if I added a capital letter on the word "Public"? Hmm... I should probably make it even more explicit, as in "its being made a public contract". -- ais523
