Reminds me of Prowl's witnessing, auditing and evaluation features

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From http://newcurrencyfrontiers.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html.


"Holons AS Accounts:

I propose that for the purpose of creating a data structure that can
in some way express the flow language, the holon be thought of as an
ACCOUNT. I understand that this word has several meanings depending on
context, but I think its multiple meanings are appropriate to describe
its functions. An account for money is usually thought of as an
account in a bank. However, an account can also mean a history of
something that happened, as in “The witness gave her account of what
happened.” A third, and more modern, meaning is an account on a
particular server, as in a Yahoo! account, or a Facebook account. This
third meaning seems to have more to do with tracking the activities of
an particular identity rather than tracking a particular type of
activity that identity engages in. For instance your Ebay account
records several different metrics (transactions completed, percent
positve feedback, etc). For the purpose of this discussion I am
calling each of those metrics as recorded within a UNIQUE account. The
ID (identity) is the collection of accounts that pertain to a given
person. So in these terms you have an Ebay ID rather than an Ebay
account. These might seem like nitpicky details, but the reason for
drawing these distinctions will soon become clear.

Returning to the original meaning of the word “account” as a history
of something that happened, I would propose that at heart all human
flow systems have something to do with recording transactions, and
enabling people to project their own actions into the future based on
the history of those transactions. Let’s consider money. Money records
(in theory) your history of doing things for other people. If you have
money, you have done more for others than you have received from
others. If you are in debt, the reverse is true. If you are elected
senator, the votes are tallied in your column (or account). These
votes reflect the preferences of all the eligible voters. Even a meta-
currency (or currency derived from other currencies), such as the Dow
Jones Industrial Average, makes visible a history of transactions and
gives people something to resonate off of when projecting their
behavior into the future. So in all these cases, the account is simply
a way of aggregating a history pertinent to a particular domain of
interest."