Protocol Architecture

Laws | Ecosystem | Instantiations

One does not design a protocol but the system designing it.

Laws

Let

• in a unique tripartite ecosystem, a protocol regulate a public utility;
• among affected parties, agents be groups of actors.

The Ruled Power has shown.

1. The inner protocol copies communication structures between agents.¹

2. The outer protocol bounds the inner protocol in an ecosystem.²

3. Tokenomic Doer macromanages with Law Programming Interfaces (LPI).
   3'. Economic Maker micromanages with legislation.²

4. In the Tokenomy, Doer manages the protocol; Maker legislates utility.
   4'. In the Economy, Maker legislates the protocol; Doer manages utility.²

5. A paradigmatic justice mechanism balances doer and maker powers.³

6. Undirected communication edges transpose into price systems.⁴

7. Directed communication edges transpose into data feeds.⁵

Notes

¹ By virtue of Conway's law;
communication graphs of Maker knowledge organize inner systems of rules.

² By virtue of Tripartite Ecosystems, centralized and decentralized.

³ By virtue of Montesquieu's political triad;
the user power is preserved in a judiciary as well as in a trading system.

⁴ By virtue of Hayek's 1945 paper;
price systems synthesize communication to coordinate independent actors.

⁵ By virtue of IT systems.

Ecosystem

+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+
| Knowledge |              Governance              |       Regulation     |
+-----------+--------------------------------------+----------------------+
                     
                                _________________       _________________
                  ___          |                 |     |       ___       |
    O           /     \        |                 |     |     /  O  \     |
  /   \       /         \      |                 |     |   /  /   \  \   |
 O<-|->O  +  |           |  +  |                 |  =  |->|<-O<-$->O->|<-|
              \         /      |                 |     |   \         /   |
                \ ___ /        |                 |     |     \ ___ /     |
                               |_________________|     |_________________|

Communication    Public             Management               Protocol
Graph            Utility         (outer protocol)
                   |                    |              
O: subgroup        |                   / \            O: subsystem
                   |              micro ----------|  
                   |              /      macro    |   ->|<-: Rule of Law
                Economic <-- Economic      |      |                |
                  Doer         Maker   Tokenomic  |-------->  Judiciary   
                   |                     Doer                      |
                   |                       |                       |
               Tokenomic ---------------> LPI -------------> User markets
                 Maker                                             |
                                                                tokens
                                                                 /   \
                                                              Dapp   DLT

<-|->: undirected edge                                <-$->: exchange
 -|- : common interface                                -$- : price system

<-, ->, / or \: directed edges                        idem: data feeds
                                                                |
   O    : broadcasting agent                          id.: central s.s  
 /   \                                                          |    
O     O : listeners or emitters                       id.: decentral s.ss

⁶ s.s or s.ss: subsystem or subsystems

Instantiations

A protocol inherits the features of management.