On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:25:52PM -0400, bd_ wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:07:13PM -0700, Ed Murphy wrote: > > Proto-Proposal: Regulate ID numbers > > (AI = 3, please) > > > > (b) Such an assignment is INVALID unless the number is a > > natural number greater than any orderly ID number previously > > assigned to an entity of that type. > > > > (c) Each ID number SHOULD be as small as possible. A player > > may, with Agoran consent, make an entity's ID number chaotic. > > > [Officers may skip a few numbers if validity would be otherwise ambiguous, > > but Eris's 17-digit monstrosities from page 106 of the 1961 Vladivostok > > telephone directory need not force eir successor to follow suit.] > > From my reading, "Mother, May I?" will allow such 17-digit > monstrosities, - "the full implications [...] should be understood and > carefully weighed" - this doesn't require any such consideration, merely > encourages it - and point (b) would force the successor to follow it.
Actually, is "orderly" meant to fix this? The meaning of the word isn't clear to me here...
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