On 6/18/20 11:42 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-business wrote:
> On 6/18/20 3:22 PM, Jason Cobb via agora-business wrote:
>> I submit (but do not pend) the following proposal:
>>
>> Title: Fee-based mechanisms
>>
>> Author: Jason
>>
>> Coauthors: Falsifian
>>
>> Adoption index: 3.0
>
>
> I withdraw the above proposal.
>
> I submit (but do not pend) the following proposal:
>
> Title: Fee-based methods
> Author: Jason
> Coauthors: Falsifian
> Adoption index: 3.0
>
> {
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> Amend Rule 2579 by replacing the first three paragraphs with the following:
>
> {
>
> If the Rules associate payment of a set of assets (hereafter the fee for
> the action; syns: cost, price, charge) with performing an action, that
> method for performing that action is a fee-based method.
>
> If the fee is a non-integer quantity of a fungible asset, the actual fee
> is the next highest integer amount of that asset.
>
> To use a fee-based method, an entity (the Actor) who is otherwise
> permitted to perform the action must announce that e is performing the
> action; the announcement must specify the correct set of assets for the
> fee and indicate intent to pay that fee for the sole purpose of using
> that method to perform that action.
Is "intent to pay that fee" strong enough? It doesn't seem to me as if
that necessarily requires the payment being possible or succeeding.
>
> }
>
> and replacing the final paragraph with the following:
>
> {
>
> If a fee-based method to perform an action has a fee of no assets, that
> action CAN be performed by announcement, but the actor SHOULD announce
> that there was a 0 or empty fee.
>
> }
>
>
> [Inspired by Falsifian pointing out that winning the game is/was a
> fee-based action, which might have meant that all attempts to win the
> game required a fee. This removes actions being fee-based and instead
> makes methods fee-based. This change is also designed to keep all
> protections and (hopefully) protect existing precedent for fee-based
> actions.]
>
> }
>
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