While I'm dubious about the trend towards E.D. with our current physically-bounded, coercive governments, I'm quite interested in this proposal which seems to (embedded within the hoopla :-) be for starting an E.D. system outside the boundaries of normal government, a virtual area of what Extropians call "Privately Practiced Law" (PPL) within the anarchy of the Internet. The Extropian list (extropians-request@gnu.ai.mit.edu) has been experimenting with a kind of mini-totalitarian justice system for a while, and we are now experimenting with the Hawthorne Exchange reputation market. Both experiments have revealed much room for improvement, but they are valuable as tentative first steps towards virtual PPLs, an important part of the cypherpunks vision. It would be quite interesting to set up an E.D.-based PPL, with both public reputation-based and anonymous voting. Especially interesting, but seemingly difficult, would be mechanisms for evauluating the consequences of specific laws being enacted, so those benefits or penalties could be fed back and added/deducted from accounts of those who voted for for/against the law. Quite interesting! I look forward to more specifics, perhaps I'll think of some myself. Nick Szabo szabo@netcom.com