I think this addresses everyone's concerns. Comments are welcome.
-Aris
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Title: Contract Patency v2
Adoption index: 3.0
Author: Aris
Co-authors: Jason Cobb, Falsifian
Amend Rule 2519, "Consent", to read in full:
A person is deemed to have consented to an action if and only if:
1. e, acting as emself, has publicly stated, and not subsequently
publicly withdrawn eir statement, that e agrees to the action;
2. e is party to a contract indicating eir consent;
3. it is reasonably clear from context that e wanted the
action to take place or assented to it taking place.
Amend Rule 2124, "Agoran Satisfaction", by removing the text '(syn. "consent")'.
Amend Rule 1742, "Contracts", to read in full:
Any group of one or more consenting persons (the parties) may
make an agreement among themselves with the intention that it be
binding upon them and be governed by the rules. Such an agreement
is known as a pact. A pact may be modified, including
by changing the set of parties, with the consent of all existing
parties. A pact may also terminate with the consent of all
parties. A pact automatically terminates if the number of
parties to it falls below one. It is IMPOSSIBLE for a person to
become a party to a pact without eir consent.
Parties to a pact governed by the rules SHALL act in
accordance with that pact. This obligation is not impaired
by contradiction between the pact and any other pact, or
between the pact and the rules.
Retitle Rule 1742 to "Pacts".
Enact a new power 2.5 rule, entitled "Contracts", with the following text:
A pact is a contract if its full provisions and list of parties have been
made available in public, along with a certification or adequate proof of
their accuracy and completeness, unless its provisions stated upon each
occasion where it was posted that it cannot become a contract.
Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, any change that would cause the full
provisions or parties of a contract to become publicly unavailable is canceled
and does not take effect. Rules to the contrary notwithstanding, any
provision of a contract that requires information that is not publicly or
generally available to be interpreted is without effect insofar as it does.
A party to a contract CAN perform any of the following actions
as permitted by the contract's provisions:
* Act on behalf of another party to the contract.
* By announcement, revoke destructible assets from the contract.
* By announcement, transfer liquid assets from the contract to a specified
recipient.
For the avoidance of doubt, any entity that was a contract before the passage
of this proposal is a pact after the passage of this proposal; if it would
not otherwise be so, it is destroyed and recreated as a pact with properties
as close as possible to those it had before.
Amend rule 2450, "Pledges", by adding at the end of the first paragraph
"A pledge ceases to exist at the end of its time window."
Destroy every pledge with an expired time window.
Enact a new power 2.0 rule, entitled "The Notary", with the following text:
The Notary is an office.
The Notary's weekly report contains:
1. every pledge, along with its title, creator, time window, time of
creation, and time of expiry; and
2. every contract, with its title, full provisions, and parties.
If the Notary is required to report a title, but none has been otherwise
publicly provided, e CAN select one.
The transitional period lasts for at least 90 days after this rule comes
into force; thereafter, any player CAN end it by announcement.
A pledge or contract is invisible if it was created before this rule came
into force, and has not been publicly posted since this rule came into force.
During the transitional period, the Notary NEED NOT report any invisible
contract or pledge. When the transitional period is ended, each invisible
contract or pledge ceases to exist in the order they were created, and
then this rule amends itself by deleting this paragraph.
Make <volunteer> the Notary.
