Here's a draft that separates out contracts from pacts, and creates an
office of Notary to track contracts and pledges. NOTE: Volunteers are
needed for Notary! Apply now!
Changes:
- Fiddles around a bit with the definition of consent, allowing
consent by contract and without objection (if the latter is too
controversial, I can remove it)
- Separates out contracts and pacts, making the old contract rule the
new pact rule
- Defines the patency requirements for pacts to become contracts
- Makes sure that old contracts remain pacts (whether or not they
remain contracts depends on whether they are patent)
- Causes pledges to actually cease to exist at the end of their time window
- Adds a Notary to track contracts and pledges (I don't have the time;
does anyone volunteer?)
- Exempts the Notary from tracking old contracts and pledges, giving
what's effectively a 90 day registration window; at the end of this
window, any contracts/pledges that haven't been registered are
destroyed
Comments are, as always, quite welcome.
-Aris
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Title: Contract Patency
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors:
Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", to read in full:
A person is deemed to have consented to an action if and only if:
1. e, acting as emself, has publicly stated, and not subsequently
publicly withdrawn eir statement, that e agrees to the action;
2. e is party to a contract indicating eir consent;
3. it is reasonably clear from context that e wanted the
action to take place; or
4. that action is taken without objection (in addition to any other
requirements normally in place for performing it).
Amend Rule 1742, "Contracts", to read in full:
Any group of two or more consenting persons (the parties) may
make an agreement among themselves with the intention that it be
binding upon them and be governed by the rules. Such an agreement
is known as a pact. A pact may be modified, including
by changing the set of parties, with the consent of all existing
parties. A pact may also terminate with the consent of all
parties. A pact automatically terminates if the number of
parties to it falls below two. It is IMPOSSIBLE for a person to
become a party to a pact without eir consent.
Parties to a pact governed by the rules SHALL act in
accordance with that pact. This obligation is not impaired
by contradiction between the pact and any other pact, or
between the pact and the rules.
Retitle Rule 1742 to "Pacts".
Enact a new power 3.0 rule, entitled "Contracts", with the following text:
A contract it a pact that has been made patent. A pact is patent
if its full provisions and list of parties have been made available in
public. The above notwithstanding, a pact cannot become patent if it states
that it cannot.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, any change that would cause the full
provisions or parties of a contract to become actually or effectively
publicly unavailable is canceled and does not take effect.
A party to a contract CAN perform any of the following actions
as permitted by the contract's provisions:
* Act on behalf of another party to the contract.
* By announcement, revoke destructible assets from the contract.
* By announcement, take liquid assets from the contract.
For the avoidance of doubt, any entity that was a contract before the passage
of this proposal is a pact after the passage of this proposal; if it would
not otherwise be so, it is destroyed and recreated as a pact with properties
as close as possible to those it had before.
Amend rule 2450, "Pledges", by adding at the end of the first paragraph
"A pledge ceases to exist at the end of its time window."
Destroy every pledge with an expired time window.
Enact a new power 2.0 rule, entitled "The Notary", with the following text:
The Notary is an office.
The Notary's weekly report contains:
1. every pledge, along with its title, creator, time window, time of
creation, and time of expiry; and
2. every contract, with its title, full provisions, and parties.
If the Notary is required to report a title, but none has been otherwise
provided, e CAN select one.
The transitional period lasts for at least 90 days after this rule comes
into force, and until it is ended by any player by announcement thereafter.
A pledge or contract is invisible if it was created before this rule came
into force, and has not been publicly posted since this rule came into force.
During the transitional period, the Notary NEED NOT report any invisible
contract or pledge. When the transitional period is ended, each invisible
contract or pledge ceases to exist in the order they were created, and
then this rule amends itself by deleting this paragraph.
Make <volunteer> the Notary.
