You take the crown, John. I'll stand shady in the corner, trenchcoat-bound, discreetly smoking cigarettes and listening attentively.

And by this I mean, it seems far too early to even speculate. ;-)

I agree with Phil, and do believe that we are finding value in this group of people. Currently, that value consists of interest in creating a situation whereby the GC can occur and the resulting work we are willing to put in to make that happen.

An E-Bay style reputation system makes sense to me for a P2P network. If you don't perform well, people will be less likely to work with you again in the future. For egregious abuses, there are administrators who simply remove you from the organization. This makes sense for future work. Once the GC is up and going. For now, more benevolent dicating from John combined with an attitude towards reaching consensus should be sufficient.

It still does seem early in the game, however it will remain this way as long as we sit around thinking it is still too early to make these kinds of decisions.

I think everyone should read this : www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html