Fate of erights.org (was Re: Two newly posted presentations)

On Jun 19, 2014, at 10:18, Mark Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> At tomorrow's friam meeting, I'd like to discus refocusing erights.org and wiki.erights.org away from E and towards electronic rights and capability-based smart contracting. I know this is short notice, but if people could watch / listen to these before then, that would be helpful. Thanks.

I object to any change which breaks links to existing content or makes it harder to (eventually, for someone with a round tuit) improve that content. For this proposed new initiative, please consider a new domain, subdomain, or subdirectory.

I think that:

(1) E still has a chance to live eventually;

(2) even if it doesn't, there are still useful insights in its design which are only written down in this one place at the moment and which should not be made harder to find;

(3) we have enough of a mess already in how things are organized.


Of course, there is already content on electronic rights and capability-based smart contracting at *.erights.org; this has always been the case. But your phrasing suggests disregarding the existing content.

There would be nothing whatsoever wrong with, for example, keeping all wiki pages on the topic at wiki.erights.org, and changing the wiki. or www. front page to give equal or greater emphasis to the smart contract concepts; in fact, I think that such changes are preferable to, say, creating a separate wiki. I only object to the presentation which suggests the existing content would be in in some way pushed aside.


And in the future, consider avoiding deliberately conflating brands (E and erights) so that you don't have this situation :)


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Kevin Reid                                  <http://switchb.org/kpreid/>