Re: Suggestion: Remove "non-fiat money" from the draft Web Payments IC Charter

But what is the wordsmith version of "stateless and non-fiat". Then add 
in frequent flyer miles, loyalty points, digital currencies, state 
cryptocurrencies, and what is that terminology.

Possibly "Digital Property" or "Digital Assets" but that opens yet 
another can of worms.

Are we inventing new terminology for the sake of...?

On 2014-09-09 02:43, David Ezell wrote:
> +1
> Thank you
> 
>  _Ars longa, vita brevis..._
> 
>  On Sep 9, 2014, at 8:29 AM, "Stephane Boyera" <boyera@w3.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Manu, Joseph, All
>> 
>> Given that there seems to be a consensus on removing non-fiat. I'm
>> happy to proceed. The easiest, at a first glance, is to just remove
>> the term and not open another can of worms by adding a new term. I
>> believe that the idea is very well conveyed and I feel we don't need
>> to go further.
>> I implemented this change (removing the problematic term).
>> cheers
>> Steph
>> 
>> Le 09/09/2014 03:28, Manu Sporny a écrit :
>> 
>>> On 09/01/2014 12:30 PM, Joseph Potvin wrote:
>> RE: Doesn’t fiat imply government?
> 
>>> 
> 
>>> If what's intended in that section of the Charter is to say
> 
>>> "stateless currencies", then some variant of this phrase would be
> 
>>> better. But would "Berkshares" that (I think) involve a regional
> 
>>> government and some municipalites in Massachussetts be inside our
> 
>>> outside that concept? http://www.berkshares.org/community_industry
>>> [1]
> 
>> 
> 
>> +1 to removing non-fiat.
> 
>> 
> 
>> Perhaps changing it to "private currencies"?
> 
>> 
> 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_currency [2]
> 
>> 
> 
>> -- manu
> 
>> 
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