Talk:Pubwan principles

I like the Metacurrency project video. The idea of all data being "signed" is excellent. Now that storage capacities are unlimited, every item of data can and should have a "metadata fork" that will probably be much bigger than the data fork itself.

You use the words "proprietary" and "non-proprietary" in the proposed bylaws. I'm not critical -- just "thinking out loud". If we tell megacorp they may not do x, y, or z with pubwan data, we are exercising proprietary rights. I don't want anybody coming in my house and walking out with whatever they want, either. So I find some utility in conditional property ownership. The key is the term conditional as opposed to absolute. I didn't use the term conditional property (Michel Bauwens supplied it) in my article about "Disenclosing the commons" but I should have (I need to edit that article).

So I wouldn't say pubwan is non-proprietary or even that fees might not be charged for certain queries or certain users (e.g. if the query was used to make money). I would say that all queries are open and on the permanent public record. Maybe anyone whose signature is on any data involved in a query should get some kind of notice of the query and have a convenient way of reviewing the query results for free. Also, there could be a rule that if anyone's data (per signature) was used to generate revenue, that every data signatory would be due some kind of "royalty" (need better word). This was my proposal to Google -- if you make money with data about me, please pay me a share. I'm not anti-business, just anti-ripoff. BTW, equity is an ancient common law principle that holds fairness above the letter of the law and also addresses the fairness of divided ownership interests. Information asymmetry can be thought of as a way to externalize various parties' legitimate information equity. Information symmetry is a form of de-externalizing (incorporting) and balancing equity among all interested parties.

PRPoor Richard 21:25, October 17, 2010 (UTC)