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Volume 1, Issue 1
1st Quarter, 2006
Submission Guidelines
Sponsorship and Editors
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Journal
of Geoethical Nanotechnology
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Alternative Models for Managing
Self-Replicating Nanotechnology
Martine Rothblatt, J.D., Ph.D
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Where to Begin
To launch the treaty, I recommend that the leading MNT firms and NGOs like CRN (the Center for Cognitive Liberty), WTA and the Extropy Institute co-draft a straw man treaty,  and it sounds like some work has already been done that way at Arizona State University. The straw man treaty would need to be blessed by local governments, then opened to ratification and entered into a force with a few signatures. As soon as some other countries see that the U.S., Britain, and China are signing up to this treaty, I think you will see every other country signing up to it right away. The Intelsat Treaty, which again, is somewhat similar, has virtually every country in the world signed up for it and buying their share of that organization. Then the members could commence work right away and continually court all states with the goal of having every country in the world a member of IntelRep.
The sales pitch would be that membership is free, you get a chance to help shape MNT replication policies, you get high-level training opportunities for people, perhaps competitive labs located in your jurisdiction, access to the benefits for your country, and a revenue opportunity for a return on the investment.
Members do have responsibilities. If you sign up, you must enforce the IntelRep self-replication exclusive nationally. So if people try to break into self-replicating things, you must enforce this treaty obligation and prosecute those people in your country. Members must screen potential customers within their country for responsibility level or signs of misuse. These are part of the standards that the Foresight guidelines has put forth to disseminate best practices nationally.
In conclusion, IntelRep meets the Foresight guidelines very nicely. It provides international control against misuse, minimal red tape, third-world benefits, sales restricted to responsible actors, self-replication in open systems is possible (that's where it departs from Foresight and goes beyond Foresight, and I think it helps save the world there), misuse is actionable, and ongoing best practices study and modeling.
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