[kordless]

"Governance in a Box" would be a better description. Imagine anything that needs to be governed by consensus, including corporation bylaws, town ordinances, 'foundation' advertising spends, Internet group meeting agendas, etc. Eris appears to be a basic framework for instantiating any of these in a way that brings trust and high transparency to a group of individuals with common goals and interests. It's one of the more powerful things the blockchain brings us!

[compleatang]

That's actually very much what we are going for. I have spent much of my career at the intersection of international development and legal reform and the idea of having a governance framework which can be used for making collective decisions in a way which will not rely on central nodes of corruption or failure.

[platz]

And then we'll find out we are just trading central modes of failure for failure which can occur across networks due to specific channel attacks

[compleatang]

Perhaps. But we'll never know until we try.