Society · Protocols
ChannelCheck
Do not read a quiet channel as agreement; check whether the parties are still connected
Definition
Mechanism
When a channel between parties goes quiet beyond a stated interval, the quiet is not taken as agreement or as health. An explicit check-in asks whether the parties are still connected and whether they agree, and the answer is recorded as agreement, disagreement, disconnection or no answer, just as Silence is recorded as what it is.
Invariants
- A channel quiet beyond the stated interval gets an explicit check-in.
- The check-in's result is recorded as agreement, disagreement, disconnection or no answer.
Risks
Failure modes
Comfortable silence
a lost connection is mistaken for harmony.
Check-in spam
check-ins come so often that they become noise.
Relationships
Builds on
References
Mind
Active withholding of signal
Nothing in this library builds on this pattern yet.
Reference