Re: DIS: Proto: Contract Cleanup, take two

2008-04-15 Thread Ben Caplan
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 12:57:36 Ian Kelly wrote: > It seems to me that the reference to "minimum number of parties" is > The key difference between a pledge and > another contract is not the minimum number of parties, but the fact > that a regular contract constitutes an agreement between its mem

Re: DIS: Proto: Contract Cleanup, take two

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:57 AM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So it seems to me that this should just read > "by a party without objection, if the contract is a pledge". Plus the ugly verbiage about blocking changes, of course. -root

Re: DIS: Proto: Contract Cleanup, take two

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Charles Reiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Issue: A makes a pledge 'if someone X, then I will Y as soon as > possible.' B does X in reference to the pledge. Then before the > deadline arrives, co-conspirator C joins the pledge and terminates it > with the agree

Re: DIS: Proto: Contract Cleanup, take two

2008-04-15 Thread Charles Reiss
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > root wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> [Zefram, root, you voted against the previous version of this; would > >> you support this revision?] > > > > What's the diffe

Re: DIS: Proto: Contract Cleanup, take two

2008-04-15 Thread Ed Murphy
root wrote: > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [Zefram, root, you voted against the previous version of this; would >> you support this revision?] > > What's the difference from the previous version? Mainly "any of these" in both parts of the revised R2

Re: DIS: Proto: Contract Cleanup, take two

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This removes the bit about allowing parties to the pledge to block the > change by announcement. As I recall, the purpose of that clause was > to protect parties to pledges who don't have first-class members in > their ba

Re: DIS: Proto: Contract Cleanup, take two

2008-04-15 Thread Ian Kelly
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Zefram, root, you voted against the previous version of this; would > you support this revision?] What's the difference from the previous version? I voted against the last one because I generally dislike "cleaning" propos

DIS: Proto: Contract Cleanup, take two

2008-04-14 Thread Ed Murphy
Proto-Proposal: Contract Changes, take two (AI = 1.5, please) [Zefram, root, you voted against the previous version of this; would you support this revision?] Amend Rule 1742 (Contracts) by replacing this text: A contract automatically terminates if the number of parties to it falls