Editing Reputation (section)

==== ''6. Limited Domain'' ====
Different types of work should be given different types of REP tokens. Reputation should represent the history of positive contributions for a specific skill. Every DAO will necessarily entail a complex combination of different expertises. To be able to appropriately and efficiently reward members for their contributions, to allow proper decentralized policing of reputation, multiple incompatible types of REP tokens are needed, one for each expertise the DAO requires to function. 

For example, every DAO will need help developing the software they use, so devREP is needed that is not interchangeable with the main workREP. A second example every DAO will need is govREP which controls the decisions the DAO makes for how to change the [[wikipedia:Smart_contract|smart contracts]] they use in response to changes in the market. Basic workREP, devREP, and govREP each represent non-overlapping expertises. Therefore the tokens for tracking and auditing members’ relative power should also be distinguished. Separate types of tokens are incompatible, in the sense that owning one type of token gives you none of the rights or powers that any other type enjoys. How each type of REP is rewarded in a DAO requires continual negotiation between different DAOs' govREP holders.

Separate types of REP are tracked by the REP Minting Mechanism through the Validation Pool.

We can think of these separate types of REP as making the colloquial social concept of reputation into a vector. Each type of REP token is a different component in the social vector that is ''reputation''. 

For example, a 3-D vector is just a triple of numbers [7, 40, 11]. Each of the scalar numbers  7, 40, & 11, are components in the vector. A person who belongs to 3 DAOs has a wallet with 3 REP types. Their wallet is a dynamic vector which changes the amounts of REP that the person holds in the various DAOs they belong to.