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. Perhaps excessively increasing the number could be a violation of the rule punishable by CFJ, and a new form of Judicial order be created to allow the numbering to be reset when needed?
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