Consumerium Governance Organization: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
The '''Consumerium Governance Organization''' is the last step of [[Consumerium governance]]. It should try to get as close as it can to create a totally [[Transparent Consumerium]] based on a [[object use protocol]] applied to real objects. This would make it easy to use infrastructure that you didn't own, as long as the network retained [[infrastructure owners trust]] and was running... so a user could pick up at [[point of purchase]] the device required to [[swipe the barcode]], and it would not necessarily be "his" or belong to the "store" | The '''Consumerium Governance Organization''' is the last step of [[Consumerium governance]]. It should try to get as close as it can to create a totally [[Transparent Consumerium]] based on a [[object use protocol]] applied to real objects. This would make it easy to use infrastructure that you didn't own, as long as the network retained [[infrastructure owners trust]] and was running... so a user could pick up at [[point of purchase]] the device required to [[swipe the barcode]], and it would not necessarily be "his" or belong to the "store": | ||
It might for instance come out of a [[vending machine]] and be returned to it. The potential of it not being returned, requires an organization to insure it. | |||
The potential of it not performing, requires an organization to pull licenses from those who vend the junk. What licenses? [[Patent]], [[trademark]] and [[copyright]]s that vendors need in order to get anyone to use that junk. So: | |||
Rather than own or sell junk or even set standards for those who own or sell junk, e.g. set [[hardware requirements]], the '''CGO''' only exists to ensure that no matter whose vending machine you got no matter whose hardware from, or what junk shop you bought your device to [[swipe the barcode]] in, if it has a [[Consumerium Service Mark]], it actually gets you the fairly-gathered data - no substitutions. You can imagine the chaos if the network was subverted. We can't stop parallel networks, although we can try with [[patent]] methods and constantly reintegrated improvements, eventually, they will exist. When they do, it is only trademarks and copyrights on the fairly-gathered data that will hold back the [[bad copy problem]], and a tide of cheap and biased imitations. | |||
This is inevitable. But it's also inevitable that our own CGO be corrupted. | |||
There is no such thing as an organization or institution that doesn't fail. Nor is there any such thing as a technology that doesn't require some sort of organizational supervision. Even [[GNU]] has to update its licenses when new legal problems are discovered. The [[IETF]] has to update technical standards. | There is no such thing as an organization or institution that doesn't fail. Nor is there any such thing as a technology that doesn't require some sort of organizational supervision. Even [[GNU]] has to update its licenses when new legal problems are discovered. The [[IETF]] has to update technical standards. | ||
Structurally, the '''CGO''' might resemble these, more so than the [[W3]] or [[X/Open]], but more like W3 or X/Open, it may need for instance to hold some [[patent]] or [[trademark]] rights to function, and ensure improvements that the [[Consumerium community]] comes up with, continue to "belong" to [[Consumerium:Itself]] and can be leveraged to keep competing networks from developing. This does NOT however mean keeping competitors from taking over THIS network. That must be possible, indeed, encouraged. This is the only way to make a standard work and spread and be trusted. It must be open competition to implement and manage it better. This means constantly obsoleting its own organization, and looking for ways to subvert itself. | Structurally, the '''CGO''' might resemble these, more so than the [[W3]] or [[X/Open]], but more like W3 or X/Open, it may need for instance to hold some [[patent]] or [[trademark]] rights to function, and ensure improvements that the [[Consumerium community]] comes up with, continue to "belong" to [[Consumerium:Itself]] and can be leveraged to keep competing networks from developing. This does NOT however mean keeping competitors from taking over THIS network. That must be possible, indeed, encouraged. This is the only way to make a standard work and spread and be trusted. It must be open competition to implement and manage it better. This means constantly obsoleting its own organization, and looking for ways to subvert itself. | ||