✦ Marginalia

"What comes next requires the protocol design community, which has made genuine progress in articulating rights and building architectures that protect individual autonomy, to recognize that the governance of shared resources cannot be derived from the intellectual traditions it currently works within, and to draw instead on fundamentally different ones: not just the technical architecture that brings shared resources into being, but the institutional arrangements that manage them, the collective-action mechanisms that sustain them, and the design principles, drawn from commons governance, organizational cybernetics, and cooperative design, that can help ensure they serve the communities that depend on them rather than the actors best positioned to capture them. This is the work that no protocol specification has yet attempted to describe."