# kaal:claim:3782193-040

**Claim.** In designing governance for large global networks, protocol centralization is necessary in order to display objective fairness, yet that same protocol centralization leads to instability, which is the core design tension the chapter's historical cases are meant to resolve.

**Type.** condition  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- large global networks open to members with diverse values

**Source quote.**

> Protocol centralization is necessary to display objective fairness, but this leads to instability.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization* (2021), The U.S. Constitution’s dynamic hybrid solution, page 34

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Historical Sketches of Centralization vs. Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782193

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**Failure mode.** Fairness versus stability tradeoff  (family: recentralization-drift)

**Topics.** decentralization, governance-design

**Keywords.** protocol-centralization, fairness, instability, governance-design, global-networks

**Related claims.**

- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782203-004

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