Ephemerisle: Implementation

This is, of course, a big project. Fortunately, no one person or institution needs to handle it. Ephemerisle will be implemented by minimizing explicit centralization and maximizing communication between event participants. We won't sell monopolies, but we'll try to provide ways for people to tell whether anyone else will be competing with them. We won't assign jobs, we'll just suggest things that would be nice to have done. Doing a job will often be tied into profiting from it, although doing things for the good of the project is also encouraged.

As an example, consider the question of whether the world of coercive governments will allow such an event to happen. What exactly are the laws of the sea? What agreements cover the use of international waters? These are good questions, and we've found a few web references on the subject (see the Links section). We'd love to see these issues explored in further detail, textual references found, webpages built. But not only do we not want to do this work, we don't want to delegate it either. More accurately, we want to neither do nor delegate the large number of things that are around this level of importance. Hopefully someone else will be interested. Maybe they'll charge for the resulting document. Maybe they'll give it away. Either way, we avoid the issue.

Methods for communication are the next step. A mailing list/web forum to begin discussion, with initial discussion focused on feasibility, and then on the meta-techniques of how to provide the right framework to let the project grow.


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