It would be very interesting to experiment with a network like this to see how it works and what could become of it. However, although a third-party DAC could do it and maybe should do it as an experiment from which to learn, I think it would be a huge economic risk for Bitshares to apply this generally at this stage, because it moves in the direction of obfuscating economic incentives.
For example, if somebody were trying to decide whether to contribute to somebody else, they will want to know how valuable that task is to the receiver, and how much they should contribute their scarce resources to it compared to other possible endeavours. Normally a price signal would help such calculation. In a gift economy, how would one get a signal as to how much other economic participants will value that contribution? Especially if it is made to particular parties, rather than to the community as a whole? Maybe some sort of voting system?
If the goal of forming a SuperDAC was "network effects" then you don't really benefit from that to the maximum unless you form a Bitshares Cooperative in the legal sense.
Am I the only one who see's this? We still expect Invictus to handle certain things when it could be handed over to the Bitshares Cooperative which we'd all work for and own.
You do know that I3 is going to be phased out right? After marketing funds etc are done they will be closed like BM has been saying. After which the people will be in power of funding etc etc.
I do know that. That is exactly why I'm having this discussion. Like I said if we want to form partnerships with corporations, governments, banks, non-profits, then we need a unified Bitshares Cooperative. That cooperative could also distribute the benefits of these relationships to its owners in the form of vouchers, discounts, special deals, gifts of any sort, donations, or whatever.
But if you don't have that cooperative then how do you take advantage of the supposed "network effects" the SuperDAC is supposed to bring? If it's all a bunch of scattered delegates distributed around the world without a legal organization for centralized institutions to partner with then how do we interact with those centralized institutions?
Those institutions instead would approach each of our delegates individually and pull them in all different directions. Additionally the rest of the community might not benefit at all from this process. Having a Bitshares Cooperative will mean the Cooperative itself could receive government funding, or funding from corporations in the form of partnerships in a way which would benefit every member.
The chief hurdle for any good or service which uses the network effect is to get enough users initially so that the network effects take hold. The amount of users required for significant network effects is often referred to as critical mass. After the critical mass is attained, the good or service should be able to obtain many new users since its network offers utility.
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/network-effect.aspMy take on this quote is that it's not just about getting "enough users" to expect some magical network effects to take hold. The secret to success is to have a network which can actually form partnerships with other networks. Centralized networks need a way to form partnerships with DACs in a mutually beneficial relationship so why not make it easy for them?