[p2p-research] engaging with the core principles

[Michel Bauwens]

Hi Ryan,

I have been overwhelmed lately, but ready now to engage with your core
principles,

Would it be useful for you to discuss your draft, say section by section,
starting with this:

If you agree, I will start commenting after receiving that reply:

Article 1. P2P Interactions

A. High quality P2P <http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P> interactions exist
between peers. Peers typically recognize and interact with each other
without reference to rank or
hierarchies<http://p2pfoundation.net/Core_Peer-2-Peer_Collaboration_Principles?title=Hierarchies&action=edit&redlink=1>.


B. Peers' willingness to interact is not primarily linked to external
drivers. External drivers might include, for example, prestige in
undertaking an interaction, financial gain, or duty.

C. P2P interactions are not amoral or value neutral. A p2p ethos embodies
trying to act with goodness and
goodwill<http://p2pfoundation.net/Core_Peer-2-Peer_Collaboration_Principles?title=Goodwill&action=edit&redlink=1>as
well as with practical skills and wisdom.

D. Peer interactions are judged (by others who aspire to a p2p ethos) as
qualitatively superior if linked to contributing to a
commons<http://p2pfoundation.net/Commons>.


E. Another measure of quality is the contribution to mission critical
functionality <http://p2pfoundation.net/Mission_critical_functionality>. For
example, this might involve efforts that save lives, advance learning and
understanding, enable sustainable economic processes or otherwise support or
enable key components of the public good as openly understood in free,
deliberative and collaborative societies.

F. P2P interactions attempt to minimize mediating forces or organizations.
Hierachies that impose governance on p2p interactions that are otherwise
consistent with social standards and laws are not appropriate to the ethos.
This is particularly true if the party imposing governance is acting with
some interest other than enabling smooth, stable and harmless p2p
interactions.

G. A p2p ethos is inconsistent with the purposeful extraction of value from
interactions when no such value is contributed directly to a given
interaction. Simply enabling future actions is not a creation of p2p value
worthy of repeated compensation. That is, royalties or licensing fees are
not consistent with a p2p ethos.

H. Unless dire political consequences are involved, peers should not be
anonymous[3]<http://p2pfoundation.net/Core_Peer-2-Peer_Collaboration_Principles#_note-Anonymity>.


I. What to avoid: P2P specifically does not aim to circumvent human rights,
democratically enacted laws, rightfully established organizational controls,
or legitimate claims of property in force. Rather, p2p seeks to build and
expand common resources that are expressly free, open, collaborative and
mutually beneficial.


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