# Necessary condition

`kaal:entity:necessary-condition`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 5 claims that carry the concept tag `necessary-condition`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

5 claims across 4 works, 2019 to 2025.

**2019**

- [3405401-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-013) [condition/argued] -- The flexibility that human business requires will unlikely ever be attained in existing decentralized protocols unless a decentralized verification system is built into decentralized commerce.
  > flexibility in existing decentralized protocols will unlikely ever be attained unless a decentralized verification system is built into decentralized commerce.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401
- [3405401-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3405401-025) [condition/argued] -- Reputation is the key ingredient that enables commerce, and it is precisely the ingredient that makes truly decentralized solutions possible.
  > In as much as reputation enables truly decentralized solutions reputation is also the key ingredient that enables commerce.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Commerce – A Primer on Why Decentralized Reputation Verification Systems Are Needed (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3405401
- [3406323-034](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3406323-034) [condition/argued] -- The flexibility that human business requires will unlikely ever be attained in existing decentralized protocols unless a decentralized verification system is built into decentralized commerce.
  > the needed flexibility in existing decentralized protocols will unlikely ever be attained unless a decentralized verification system is built into decentralized commerce.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralization - A Primer on the New Economy (2019). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3406323

**2024**

- [4855607-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4855607-030) [condition/asserted] -- The feedback effects that make community governance of federated learning work will not materialize unless expert community members are selected coherently, making coherent expert selection a precondition of the mechanism rather than an optional refinement.
  > The key is to select the expert community members coherently to allow for the feedback effects for FL to materialize.
  Wulf A. Kaal, How AI Models are Optimized Through Web3 Governance (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4855607

**2025**

- [5886342-016](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/5886342-016) [condition/asserted] -- Digital ownership under the Codex is control dependent: it requires direct or indirect control over the digital object, so ownership without any technical control is not recognised.
  > (3) Digital Ownership requires direct or indirect Control over the Digital Object.
  Furrer Andreas, Wulf A. Kaal, Stephan D. Meyer, Universal Digital Law Codex (UDLC) (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5886342

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