spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Bandwidth Pooling

["Glotmorf" <glotmorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/23/02 at 9:11 PM Wonko wrote:

>How's this for Bandwidth Pooling? They're similar to Clubs, but only meant
>to be use for Bandwidth loans.
>
>{{
>__Bandwidth Pools__
>
>A. Definition
>
>Bandwidth Collectives, or Pools, are groups of players sharing eir
>bandwidth. A Pool may be created by a group of three to six players, using
>the following procedure:
>
>1) One player issues, in a Public Forum, a Declaration of Intent to Pool,
>or
>a DIP. A DIP must include:
>    i) the name of the Pool to be created
>    ii) the names of all other players who are to be members of the Pool.
>    iii) a statement indicating whether the Pool is Open or Closed.
>2) Each player named to be part of the Pool affirms, within three ndays of
>the issuance of the DIP, their willingness to join the Pool. If any named
>player fails to do this, the DIP is void and the Pool is not created.
>
>B. Admittance and Rejection
>
>All Pools must have one of two leniencies Open or Closed. A Pool is assumed
>to be Open if it's leniency is unspecified.
>Any member of a Pool may remove emself from that Pool by declaring their
>intention to leave the Pool in a Public Forum. Such removals take effect at
>the beginning of the next Voting Period.
>
>B.1. Open Pools
>
>The following two paragraphs apply only to Open Pools:
>
>Any player who is not a member of a Pool may issue a Request for Admittance
>(RFA). If a majority of the members of the Pool deny the RFA within four
>ndays of its issuance, then the RFA is destroyed and has no effect.
>Otherwise, the player who issued the RFA becomes a member of the Pool.
>
>Any player who is a member of a Pool may issue a Writ of Exclusion (WOE)
>towards any other member of the same Pool. If a majority of the members of
>the Pool other than the target of the WOE deny the WOE within four ndays of
>its issuance, then the WOE is destroyed and has no effect. Otherwise, the
>player who was targeted by the WOE ceases to be a member of the Pool. Such
>oustings take effect at the beginning of the next Voting Period.
>
>B.2. Closed Pools
>
>The following two paragraphs apply only to Closed Pools:
>
>Any player who is not a member of a Pool may issue a Request for Admittance
>(RFA). If any member of the Pool denies the RFA within four ndays of its
>issuance, then the RFA is destroyed and has no effect. Otherwise, the
>player
>who issued the RFA becomes a member of the Pool.
>
>Any player who is a member of a Pool may issue a Writ of Exclusion (WOE)
>towards any other member of the same Pool. If any member of the Pool other
>than the target of the WOE denies the WOE within four ndays of its
>issuance,
>then the WOE is destroyed and has no effect. Otherwise, the player who was
>targeted by the WOE ceases to be a member of the Pool. Such evictions take
>effect at the beginning of the next Voting Period.
>
>C. Pooled Proposals
>
>C.1. Definition
>
>A Pool may submit Pooled Proposals. Pooled proposals are proposals, but
>with
>the following properties:
>
>*They count as 1/(number of Players in the Pool) units of bandwidth towards
>each member's Bandwidth.
>
>*When a Pooled Proposal passes or fails, the dimensions of each member of
>the Pool shall change by (the amount the eir dimensions would have changed
>had e issued the proposal emself) / (the number of players in the Pool),
>rounded up.
>
>*When a Pooled Proposal is Shelved, it is immediately removed from the
>Ballot and destroyed.
>[[To deal with possible changes in the size of the Club between nweeks]]
>
>C.2. Issuance
>
>Any player in a Pool may issue a Pooled Proposal on behalf of eir Pool
>provided that each Pool member has enough Bandwidth that eir Bandwidth will
>not drop below zero.
>
>Before Voting begins, each Pooled Proposal that would be on the Ballot must
>be Ratified by its Pool, or it is destroyed. An Open Pool Ratifies a Pooled
>Proposal when at least half of its members, not counting the member who
>issued proposal, affirm it in a Public Forum. A Closed Pool Ratifies a
>Pooled Proposal when all of its members, not counting the member who issued
>the proposal, affirm it in a Public Forum.
>
>D. Destruction of Pools
>
>If at any time a Pool has fewer than two members, or more than two-thirds
>of
>all players are members, the Pool is immediately dissolved, and it and all
>Pooled Proposals, WOEs, and RFA's associated with it cease to exist.
>
>}}
>
>--
>Wonko

Ya know...you can create something like this via a Charter Prop right now...:)

						Glotmorf