- From: Andrew Bransford Brown <andrewbb@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 14:46:57 -0400
- To: Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org>
- Cc: Interledger Community Group <public-interledger@w3.org>
Received on Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:47:30 UTC
Michiel, that's a great idea, but I'm not sure the "smart contract" protocol is ready for it. Would it be possible to form a group focusing on contract structure, as others have suggested? I'm not sure how to do that. On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 2:08 AM, Michiel de Jong <michiel@unhosted.org> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for raising the question of making for-profit ledgers (like, one > day, your Promise app?) ILP compatible. > > On Apr 18, 2017 8:45 PM, "Andrew Bransford Brown" <andrewbb@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Good job on the ILP call. > > > There is nothing precluding each member of this group from profiting or > creating for-profit entities based on these protocols. > > > Correct! Your Promise app could also be ILP-based for the payment part of > contract execution. Even if you don't publish its source code, you can make > it compatible with other people's apps. > > That means, you use your Promise app, other members use their own software > on their own server, yet payments succeed end-to-end. That's the > Interledger vision. > > There is a public network of ILP-enabled servers, see > https://connector.land. > > Would you be interested in joining the public Interledger network with > your Promise app? > > > The purpose is to convene upon open standards. Through a standard > language, all can benefit. > > >
Received on Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:47:30 UTC