Decentralized Futures Programs: Magport Labs, Advancing Technology Development and Promotion within the Polkadot Ecosystem

[joepetrowski]

@hangfo

Thank you for the clarification of system parachain and common goods parachain, quite straightforward. Since “common good chain” is an outdated term for system parachain here, I am afraid that not every Polkadot developer or community member is able to tell the difference between the system parchain and common good ones, especially when it comes to some protocols and utility apps. I think a clearer delineation and guidance would be helpful for projects to develop appchains or something common good based on Parity’s technology; maybe @Acai can also help.
I know there have been some discussions about polkadot protocol and common good parachains before, but I would also like to get an update on your views.

It’s mostly summed up in the last paragraph of the post that you linked. Basically:

• If governance allocates coretime to a chain AND its upgrades/root origin are deferred only to system governance, then it is a system parachain;
• Everything else is not a system parachain.

Within the category “not a system parachain”, people can call things whatever they want, and perhaps it does get subdivided into multiple classifications of chains (or more generally, coretime consumers). If people want to adopt “common good” as a term with specific meaning, then go for it . However, if you do want it to have specific meaning, someone should express that more precisely.