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 			-  as you develop reputations, governance, integration approaches for an interlay you may run across things where a decision isn't clear and it feels restrictive (once made) -- you know that one way to address it is to fork
 			- pun on *interlays*
 	- have you thought about exchange formats / interop standards
-		- interlays 
+		- interlay: a collection of statements with some default schema
+		- a standard schema could be: naming a source and describing its properties
+			- aside: catalogue like
+		- unsure now because people that care about granualr 
 	
 
 ## [[2021-05-22]]