Quote from: toknormal on April 09, 2016, 07:57:34 AM

Quote from: eduffield on April 09, 2016, 03:26:11 AM

The current and new system is post-emptive. I think we just need something to track people and companies as they use our system. I think you're thinking I'm trying to solve the human element. The human element in a system like this is critical to it's success.

As I say, I can understand the basis, I just don't see why a project submission template has to be coded into the blockchain.

Whats wrong with this process ?

Proposer: "I've got this proposal"
Arbitrators: "It's a bit vague, could you submit a more structured proposal with some milestones"
Proposer: "Ok"

Who said anything about a "project submission template" that is "coded into the blockchain"? I'll try to be much more explicit.

People will be able to create entities on the blockchain (groups, users, companies), these are really simple objects and only have a publickey and a name basically. They allow someone to own an alias which represents something in the real world, like my identity on here. By the way this is exactly the way the evolution documents describe the process of implementing these systems, these are the "network primitives". Next, using these identities you'll be able to create a proposal or contract, which is then controllable in the future. You can add things to it, like reports.

Reports have a date and a url. It's just a really simple abstraction of exactly what we're going to need over the next 5-10 years and nothing more. They'll live elsewhere, perhaps all over the internet.

Groups of people working together are managed with decentralized autonomous organizations. We could have DAOs for DashCORE, DashResearch (vending machines, etc?), DashFoundationLLC, etc. So when the foundation wants to get funding for something, we can group all of the requests together and see how much funding they've gotten total and other metrics. Graphing these metrics out over long periods of time is going to allow people to study our currency and figure out how it's growing, what is working and what is not.

Here's a comment from my code of the layout of the network:

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/*
   CATEGORY MAPPING

   * means the category has an associated class

   DASH NETWORK (ROOT)
      -> NETWORK VARIABLE
         -> switch, setting
      -> CATEGORIES
         -> LEVEL
            -> I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI
         -> VALUEOVERRIDE
            -> NETWORK, OWNER
         -> ACTOR
            -> GROUP*
               -> CORE, NONCORE
            -> USER*
               -> CORE, NONCORE
            -> COMPANY* / ORGANIZATION
               -> DAO
               -> COMMITTEE
                  -> BUSINESS, RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, AMBASSADOR
               -> FORPROFIT
                  -> LLC, INC
               -> NOTFORPROFIT
                  -> 501c3, 501c6
         -> PROJECT*
            -> TYPES
               -> SOFTWARE
                  -> CORE, NONCORE
               -> HARDWARE
               -> PR
            -> PROJECT REPORT*
               -> UPDATE
            -> PROJECT MILESTONE*
               -> START, ONGOING, COMPLETE, FAILURE
            -> PROPOSAL*
               -> FUNDING, GOVERNANCE, AMEND, GENERIC
            -> CONTRACT*
               -> TYPE
                  -> INTERNAL, EXTERNAL
               -> STATUS
                  -> OK
      -> GROUPS
         -> GROUP1
            -> USER1 (only users are allowed here in this scope)
            -> USER2
         -> GROUP2 (EVO)
            -> VALUEOVERRIDE (STORE=DASHDRIVE)
            -> USER1

      -> COMPANIES
         -> COMPANY1
         -> DAO1

*/