Promise Theory and Blog Update

A new essay on the infrastructure topic that won the poll is coming soon.  In the meantime, I wanted to share this interesting idea: Promise Theory.  I came across it while reading Mark Burgess's USENIX presentation on Cfengine, an open-source configuration management system.

Mark Burgess developed the idea:
"The Promise theory describes policy governed services, in a framework of completely autonomous agents, which assist one another by voluntary cooperation alone."