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.
Yes on the first, no on the second ("orderly" and "chaotic" are
natural-language antonyms; see Rule 754, section 4).
