I've been doing a (very) little bit of thinking - basically in the 4 hours since I've been away from my terminal, about P2P and XR. The first thing that comes to mind about using P2P has to do with trust and confidentiality.
The idea of the Sleeve is that it is your complete profile, voting record, partisan membership, affinity and identity. This seems to be the thing that you'd want to keep private or semi-private. Control over your sleeve, should thus be local. This requires a fat client.
If we keep sleeve control an end user responsibility then the burden to form coalitions of interest becomes a distributed matter. Thus only the the meat of wonking, dialog, polling and voting is borne by central servers.
The conflict arises in that for the sake of transparency some portion of the sleeve must be visible. My first stab is that if you wonk, something of you should be known. Thuse there is the tension between the desire of a critic of a policy to know the interests and motivations of the wonker, and the desire of the wonker to work anonymously in support of a controversial cause.
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