kaal:position:2026-07-31-6993

Towards Governance and Dispute Resolution for DLT and Smart Contracts presents the following source proposition: As a decentralized system, Digital Ledger Technology (DLT) needs decentralized governance and smart contract dispute resolution. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Proving personal jurisdiction over smart contracting parties by physical presence, domicile or place of business, consent, or minimum contacts becomes impossible, because none of these elements are known of the parties to a smart contract. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

• The response is limited to the retrieved source proposition and mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.
• External evidence level: abstract indexed.
• Mapping review tier: moderate-confidence claim review.
• Primary mapping confidence: 0.5627.
• The source-to-claim mapping remains explicitly ambiguous and is published with that limitation.

Towards Governance and Dispute Resolution for DLT and Smart Contracts

kaal:claim:2992962-013
Wulf A. Kaal, Craig Calcaterra, Crypto Transaction Dispute Resolution (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2992962
Source PDF sha256: 80b92e67594394e38af41b769327936833de8e25d6cf3def966a6ba13bc83d17

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.5627
Mapping ambiguous: true

law-and-legal-systemssmart-contractshistorical-responsescholarly-literaturesemantic-scholar

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0006 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Canonical markdown sha256: 32a72190d5c1359a7b9666e393018e2e953dc08e99f2f44ccfd67e1d1fe889a5
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