Building an Electronic Community System
B.R. Schatz
Oct 29, 1999

• Electronic Community Systems: are they just an integrated set of network functionality?
• Is it really necessary a large amount of data and sophistication for an electronic community to exist?
• Good: Metadata for all information units.
• Can we consider as Information Units, the current web pages (including the javascript methods)?
• Good: Levels of privacy. This should be provided in the Web (not just as password access) in an easy to author way.
• "Rewards" should follow the example of publishing industry and not imposed over each and every IU.
• Can the Worm Community be implemented today as a web site? What would be the difficulties?