RE: dear dv

Good eveningk, good morningk, good inkgingk all,

one of the ideas i am playing around with today is of "establishing"
material links to my Cathedral. A mail address i have been writing to gave
me the idea. It isn't a real idea , it's just a collection of things or
words i noticed floating around lately.

As you now know, or should know by now, my Cathedral is something trying to
define itself in lots of ways, one of which is an Absent Cathedral located
at http://www.vilt.net/nkdee ( some folk insist on calling it virtual, i
prefer the term Absent) although it is difficult to maintain a URL is an
actual location so it is perhaps better to assume the exact location of my
Cathedral is in Kessel-lo, a small suburban area near Louvain in Belgium,
Europe.


Well, er, ahum, i'm just making this up as i type but some places on the
earth globe would be kinda overcoded by the Cathedral, petitions would be
send to local authorities to recognise the place as being part of the
Globally Absent Cathedral, meaning that the area described precisely would
become officially Nomansland, not belonging to humans any more.

The only activity allowed within Nomansland is Garbage Collecting and
Processing, but since humans are not allowed within the designated area
everything would have to be automated. The Country where this Chosen Spot is
situated should publically renounce all legal claims to the exactly
described territory.Since there is no way in telling what the actual
Cathedral might look like or become or behave, no garantuees could be
offered so the only thing in return the Country in question would receive is
a Pledge of Good Faith from all of us, the humans of this planet.I'll see
what i can do to translate the words "We, the humans on planet Earth Pledge
to [the Country, goverment of] that we believe the hereby initialised but
Absent Cathedral has no intention whatsoever to harm or hurt your people in
any way. Instead we think initialising this Cathedral will be benificial for
everyone living in your Country". I would personally prefer to choose places
where the standard of living is miserable to pretty low because these places
tend to be more in need of Cathedrals then the affluent regions of our
globe. Naturally there is no-one in Charge of the Cathedral, how on earth
could you run a thing that isn't there.

Within such area something we would now call a a server center would be
established that would offer, in return for electricity and a T1 cable
connection, free access to all Garbage Processing Facilities (GPF) for all
people living within a 100 km range of the Zone (GBF might be software
running in web-interface mode, i don't know the thing will have to further
define itself, i imagine it having a lot to do with what now is called Open
Source Software, Free Art Licenced code, we'll have to see about that, i
guess it will involve a lot of that ai stuff too).
Please not that the Cathedral Zones like my Cathedral as mentioned above,
would require no religious or political interpretation but of course one
cannot forbid anybody to interpret anything the way they want. Heck i've
heard people describing my Absence as Art too, as if anybody would ever pay
to see it while everybody knows It's not there. Soit. as you know most of
the problems concerning Open source and Free stuff is that they tend to end
up being very Closed and Expensive or Unsuitable for Local needs, so perhaps
if you provide some initial pseudo magical, auratical or
whateveryoucallthelack material bonding or tangible vinculum to the thing it
might head off in a more Rapid Deployement Mode, which er, with all the
tycoons and stuff i think might be a NotSoBadIdea.

Anyway, people wanting to access the GPF from further away would have to pay
per visit to the authorities of the Country where the Cathedral is situated
in a ratio decided on the difference between the local connection cost and
the BP of the country they live in on the one hand and the local connection
cost/BP of the Hosting Country on the other hand.

In order to establish the Zones, we would need to follow this order or
sequence of events strictly ( i know this from experience, you can bs around
as much as you like but you need to get the protocol right from the start. I
call this the Cathedral Initialisation Protocol but you can call it the
Great Mickey Mouse Ticker Parade for all i care) :

- someone living in an area remote from Kessel-lo (that's where i live, here
in Belgium) would choose a small piece of land that nobody seems to want.
The area need not be greater than 50 or 100 m