<div dir="ltr">fyi:<div><br></div><div><h1 id="gmail-firstHeading" class="gmail-firstHeading" lang="en" style="color:black;background:none;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:visible;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;line-height:1.3;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif">ICON Republic of Blockchains</h1><div id="gmail-bodyContent" class="gmail-mw-body-content" style="line-height:1.6;font-size:0.875em;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif"><div id="gmail-contentSub" style="font-size:11.76px;line-height:1.2em;margin:0px 0px 1.4em 1em;color:rgb(84,84,84);width:auto"></div><div id="gmail-jump-to-nav" class="gmail-mw-jump" style="overflow:hidden;height:0px;zoom:1;margin-bottom:1.4em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#mw-head" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"></a><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#p-search" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"></a></div><div id="gmail-mw-content-text" lang="en" dir="ltr" class="gmail-mw-content-ltr" style="direction:ltr"><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><b>* White Paper: ICONstitution and Governance.</b></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">URL = <a class="external gmail-free" href="https://m.icon.foundation/resources/file/ICON_Yellowpaper_ICONstitution_and_Governance_EN_V1.0.pdf" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background:url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;padding-right:16px">https://m.icon.foundation/resources/file/ICON_Yellowpaper_ICONstitution_and_Governance_EN_V1.0.pdf</a>?</p><div id="gmail-toc" class="gmail-toc" style="border:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);background-color:rgb(249,249,249);padding:7px;font-size:13.3px;display:table;zoom:1"><div id="gmail-toctitle" style="direction:ltr;text-align:center"><h2 style="color:black;background:none;margin:1em 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border:none;font-size:13.3px;display:inline;line-height:1.3">Contents</h2><span class="gmail-toctoggle" style="font-size:12.502px"> [<a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#" id="gmail-togglelink" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em;padding:0px"><li class="gmail-toclevel-1 gmail-tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#Description" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">1</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Description</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-1 gmail-tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#Discussion" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">2</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Discussion</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-1 gmail-tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#Excerpts" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Excerpts</span></a><ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px"><li class="gmail-toclevel-2 gmail-tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#6_Principles_of_Rhizomatic_Philosophy" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">6 Principles of Rhizomatic Philosophy</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-2 gmail-tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#The_ICONstitution" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">The ICONstitution</span></a><ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px"><li class="gmail-toclevel-3 gmail-tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#Article_1_.28The_Principles_of_the_Constitution.29" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.2.1</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Article 1 (The Principles of the Constitution)</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-3 gmail-tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#Article_2_.28Rights_of_the_ICONist.29" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.2.2</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Article 2 (Rights of the ICONist)</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-3 gmail-tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#Article_3_.28Duties_of_the_ICONist.29" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">3.2.3</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Article 3 (Duties of the ICONist)</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-1 gmail-tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#Governance" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">4</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Governance</span></a><ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px"><li class="gmail-toclevel-2 gmail-tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#1.29_Decentralization" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">1) Decentralization</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-2 gmail-tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#2.29_Interchain" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">2) Interchain</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-2 gmail-tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#3.29_Contribution" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">3) Contribution</span></a></li></ul></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-1 gmail-tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#Characteristics" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">5</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Characteristics</span></a><ul style="list-style-type:none;margin:0px 0px 0px 2em;padding:0px"><li class="gmail-toclevel-2 gmail-tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#Delegated_Proof_of_Contribution" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">5.1</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">Delegated Proof of Contribution</span></a></li><li class="gmail-toclevel-2 gmail-tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains#ICON_Incentives_Scoring_System" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none"><span class="gmail-tocnumber">5.2</span> <span class="gmail-toctext">ICON Incentives Scoring System</span></a></li></ul></li></ul></div><h1 style="color:black;background:none;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Description">Description</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Description" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">"What Deleuze refers to as deterritorialization always leads to reterritorialization. The problem is not with the formation of new territory, but rather when it is not followed by deterritorialization. Blockchain must not be fixated in one order, but must continue its “a-parallel evolution” and constant modification. As such, the ICON Republic is structurally composed of lines of articulation segmentarity, strata and territories; but on a movement side that brings changes to these, it was designed to involve lines of flight, movement deterritorialization and destratification. Therefore, the design of the ICON Republic, as stated in the preceding White Paper, lies on Rhizomatic Philosophy." (<a class="external gmail-free" href="https://m.icon.foundation/resources/file/ICON_Yellowpaper_ICONstitution_and_Governance_EN_V1.0.pdf" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background:url("http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/23/Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif") 100% 50% no-repeat;padding-right:16px">https://m.icon.foundation/resources/file/ICON_Yellowpaper_ICONstitution_and_Governance_EN_V1.0.pdf</a>?)</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br></p><h1 style="color:black;background:none;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Discussion">Discussion</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Discussion" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">"Unlike the conventional network environment, where a single trusted entity processes all tasks, the public blockchain network environment needs a way for all participants to agree with mutual understanding given the large number of unspecified participants autonomously conducting their tasks. This situation is not unlike our traditional society composed of people. People establish a singular law and order under which everyone can build a trustworthy society through mutual understanding. Similarly, a decentralized peer-to-peer network can operate with the highest degree of reliability given the ability to conform to the consensus of its participants, thereby allowing participants of free-will to self-govern their network within a given economic structure.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">For this reason, the ICON Governance is designed to ensure that numerous heterogeneous communities can reliably connect to each other by a commitment to each community. To this end, the ICON Network allows each heterogeneous community to elect its own representative, allowing representatives to transact within a single network consensus rule on behalf of each community member. Thanks to “the principles of complement and balance” , the ICON Network's rules are fairly operated by representatives who are situated outside each of the heterogeneous communities. This framework enables participants to reach consensus on issues both inside and outside the ICON Network that are difficult to determine through code.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><b>ICON Governance measures the contribution of all ICONists involved in the operation of the ICON Network in accordance with a specified evaluation system and distributes reasonable compensation accordingly.</b></p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">Through this system, each representative can objectively evaluate one’s contribution to the ICON Network, whether through delegation from other ICONists or one’s own contribution. In the ICON Governance, <b>an ICONist who has made a sufficient contribution to the network is considered credible and is qualified to be the subject of major decisions in the network</b>. This approach makes it possible to prove a variety of contributions to the ICON Network, as opposed to merely proving stake, as in the existing "Delegated Proof of Stake" approach."</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br></p><h1 style="color:black;background:none;font-weight:normal;margin:0px 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-size:1.8em;font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Excerpts">Excerpts</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Excerpts" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h1><h2 style="color:black;background:none;font-weight:normal;margin:1em 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-6_Principles_of_Rhizomatic_Philosophy">6 Principles of Rhizomatic Philosophy</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: 6 Principles of Rhizomatic Philosophy" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>1 and 2. Principles of Connection and Heterogeneity</b></li></ul><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">"Any point of a rhizome can be connected to any other and must be. This is very different from the tree or root, which plots a point and fixes an order.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br></p><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>3. Principle of Multiplicity</b></li></ul><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">It is only when the multiple is effectively treated as a substantive, “multiplicity”, that it ceases to have any relation to the One as subject or object, natural or spiritual reality, image and world.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br></p><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>4. Principle of Asignifying Rupture</b></li></ul><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">Against the oversignifying breaks separating structures or cutting across a single structure. A rhizome may be broken, shattered at a given spot, but it will start up again on one of its old lines, or on new lines.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br></p><ul style="margin:0.3em 0px 0.5em 1.6em;padding:0px"><li style="margin-bottom:0.1em"><b>5 and 6. Principles of Cartography and Decalcomania</b></li></ul><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">A rhizome is not amenable to any structural or generative model. It is a stranger to any idea of genetic axis or deep structure…The rhizome is altogether different, a map and not a tracing… It constructs the unconscious. It fosters connections between fields, the removal of blockages on bodies without organs, the maximum opening of bodies without organs onto a plane of consistency. It is itself a part of the rhizome."</p><h2 style="color:black;background:none;font-weight:normal;margin:1em 0px 0.25em;overflow:hidden;padding:0px;border-bottom:1px solid rgb(170,170,170);font-family:"Linux Libertine",Georgia,Times,serif;line-height:1.3"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-The_ICONstitution">The ICONstitution</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;font-family:sans-serif"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The ICONstitution" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><h3 style="color:black;background:none;margin:0.3em 0px 0px;overflow:hidden;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom:none;line-height:1.6"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Article_1_.28The_Principles_of_the_Constitution.29">Article 1 (The Principles of the Constitution)</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Article 1 (The Principles of the Constitution)" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">1. "The ICON Network pursues decentralization, which is the fundamental philosophy of the blockchain paradigm.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">2. Each Community has its own autonomy and can freely interconnect with the ICON Network.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">3. The ICON Network fairly recognizes the contribution of all participants.</p><h3 style="color:black;background:none;margin:0.3em 0px 0px;overflow:hidden;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom:none;line-height:1.6"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Article_2_.28Rights_of_the_ICONist.29">Article 2 (Rights of the ICONist)</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Article 2 (Rights of the ICONist)" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">1. Each participant who uses the ICON Network shall be called an "ICONist".</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br>2. Each ICONist has the following basic rights:</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">a. Right to Governance: An ICONist has the right to voluntarily participate in the decision making of the ICON Network through the delegation of authority, of which is based on one’s respective contribution to the ICON Network, or being oneself a delegate.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">b. Right to Compensation: All ICONists shall be fairly compensated for their respective contribution to the ICON Network.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">c. Right to Access: Each ICONist has the right to freely use the ICON Network.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit"><br></p><h3 style="color:black;background:none;margin:0.3em 0px 0px;overflow:hidden;padding-top:0.5em;padding-bottom:0px;border-bottom:none;line-height:1.6"><span class="gmail-mw-headline" id="gmail-Article_3_.28Duties_of_the_ICONist.29">Article 3 (Duties of the ICONist)</span><span class="gmail-mw-editsection" style="font-size:small;font-weight:normal;margin-left:1em;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1em;display:inline-block"><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/index.php?title=ICON_Republic_of_Blockchains&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Article 3 (Duties of the ICONist)" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(11,0,128);background:none">edit</a><span class="gmail-mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h3><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">1. All ICONists shall strive to ensure that the ICON Network runs properly.</p><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;line-height:inherit">2. All ICONists shall oppose any transgression against the ICON Network."</p></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">P2P Foundation: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.net</a>  - <a href="http://blog.p2pfoundation.net" target="_blank">http://blog.p2pfoundation.net</a> <br><br>Connect: <a href="http://p2pfoundation.ning.com" target="_blank">http://p2pfoundation.ning.com</a>; Discuss: <a href="http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation" target="_blank">http://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/p2p-foundation</a><br><br>Updates: <a href="http://del.icio.us/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://del.icio.us/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://friendfeed.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://twitter.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/mbauwens</a>; <a href="http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/mbauwens</a><br><br><br><br><br></div></div></div>