I forsee problems. I assign a chaotic number 10000 to a proposal. Ten
years from now, the Neo-proposal Promoter assigns number 10000 to a
proposal, blissfully unaware that the number was already assigned 10
years ago.
BobTHJ
On 6/20/07, Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Sorry I didn't notice this before, but you almost certainly want a
statement that ID numbers must be unique.
On 6/20/07, Ed Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Proto-Proposal: Regulate ID numbers
> (AI = 3, please)
>
> Create a rule titled "ID Numbers" with this text:
>
> If a rule defines a type of entity as having ID numbers, then:
>
> (a) Whenever an instance of that type does not have an ID
> number, the player held responsible by that rule (or, if
> there is no such player, the Speaker) SHALL assign an ID
> number to it by announcement as soon as possible.
>
> (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.
>
> (d) Once assigned, an ID number cannot be changed.
>
> (e) If an office is responsible for assigning ID numbers, then
> that officer's report SHALL include the greatest orderly ID
> number, and a list of all chaotic ID numbers, previously
> assigned to the type of entity.
>
> [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.]
>
> Amend Rule 2141 (Role and Attributes of Rules) by replacing the
> paragraph containing "Every rule shall have a number for identification"
> with this text:
>
> Rules have ID numbers, to be assigned by the Rulekeepor.
>
> Amend Rule 1607 (The Promotor) by appending this text:
>
> Distributed proposals have ID numbers, to be assigned by the
> Promotor.
>
> Amend Rule 897 (Court Procedure) by appending, after the paragraph
> containing "The Clerk of the Courts shall publish the text of a CFJ",
> this text:
>
> CFJs have ID numbers, to be assigned by the Clerk of the Courts.
>
>
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Taral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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