What
is a Commons?
and How to Structure a Commons
September
28, 2002
To: intercommons-list
From: Bruce Damer on What is a Commons? and How to Structure
a Commons
Notes
Nov
15th resolution
Shares
versus Licenses
Do
we issue one share per member or send them a license
License
and Rights of Participation
Digital
Space Commons is just one group member of the Intercommons Market
Any
group, company, nonprofit, club etc can join the Intercommons
Market en masse by distributing the License and Rights to individuals
Intercommons
Marketplace is an online exchange, a bulletin board, a project
initiator, a serendipity promoter
Digital
Space Commons is a private commons, where shared projects, community
intellectual property, and a distinct culture is evolved
Intercommons
Marketplace serves the public, group and individual members.
Intercommons means Internet Commons or an Interconnection of
Commons’. Digital Space Commons is one member of the Intercommons.
The Intercommons is a set of structures in the public interest.
.com, .net, .org
Intercommons
will have three organs:
.com
Marketplace, trading, bid, offer, transaction of value
.org
Agreements and Arbitration, torte and court
.net
Forum, public discussion, news, views
Intercommons
will be a meta organization, all online, does it need to be
incorporated? It will be a governmental organization. Will its
directors be elected or will it have directors? Will it be simply
a service. Its members will build and support its infrastructure.
Will it be an association?
Membership
in the Intercommons will be optional. You don’t have to
be a member to browse the public listings in the marketplace.
You will have to be a member to place a listing in the Marketplace.
Certain types of listings may carry a fee. Member organizations
will be encouraged to support the Intercommons through in-kind
contributions of skills, time and services.
Digital
Space Commons is about tools enabling digital communications
and collaboration.
Intercommons
is about enabling the exchange of value in any field of endeavor.
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