Agreements and contracts are everywhere, but they are built on layers and layers of legal and social institutions. Software is slowly entering into this stack. In this article, we introduce agreement paths, a general model for understanding and decomposing digital agreement systems, and Agreement Engine, an open-source software service for building net-native agreement systems. We demonstrate Agreement Engine by building two example agreement systems: Scarce Knowledge, an app for crowdfunding essays, and Twitter Social Capital, a bot that allows users to form and enforce Twitter agreements.
翻译:协议和合同无处不在,但都是建立在法律和社会机构的层次和层次上。软件正在慢慢进入这一堆。在这个文章中,我们引入了协议路径,即理解和分解数字协议系统的一般模式和协议引擎,这是建立网络协议系统的开放源代码软件服务。我们通过建立两个协议系统来展示协议引擎:Scarce Know,一个用于众人资助文章的应用程序,以及Twitter Social Capital,一个允许用户形成和执行推特协议的机器人。