# kaal:claim:3782203-021

**Claim.** Any set of rules that can be designed will need amendment as the environment changes, and a network that relies eternally on a static rule set will inevitably become corrupt or irrelevant.

**Type.** predictive  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- open global decentralized networks
- anonymous membership
- changing environments

**Source quote.**

> Any set of rules that can ever be designed will always need to be amended in the future as the environment changes, to keep the network running healthily. We cannot rely eternally on a static set of rules, or else the system will inevitably become corrupt or irrelevant.

**From.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, *A Technical Perspective on Decentralization* (2021), Infinite variations of Prisoner’s Dilemma, page 15

**Cite as.** Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, A Technical Perspective on Decentralization (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782203

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `ab8a22d0dbb026a09212a4c85963f3c05787cf80775e8613ae3724e3883e7a56` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Calcaterra%20and%20Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20A%20Technical%20Perspective%20on%20Decentralization.pdf

**Failure mode.** ossified-protocol  (family: rule-obsolescence-and-ossification)

**Topics.** governance-design, institutional-design

**Keywords.** rule-amendment, static-rules, network-decay, evolutionary-governance

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