From owner-nomic-official@teleport.com Tue Apr 9 21:55:14 1996 Received: from desiree.teleport.com (desiree.teleport.com [192.108.254.21]) by Shamino.quincy.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA21683 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 21:55:09 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by desiree.teleport.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA03977; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:33:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by desiree.teleport.com (bulk_mailer v1.3); Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:33:45 -0700 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by desiree.teleport.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id OAA10845 for nomic-official-outgoing; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:52:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from torii.triple-i.com (torii.triple-i.com [192.94.150.1]) by desiree.teleport.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA10793 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from siesta (siesta+.triple-i.com [192.94.150.7]) by torii.triple-i.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA20957 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 14:51:48 -0700 Received: from pak by siesta (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20994; Tue, 9 Apr 96 14:51:47 PDT Date: Tue, 9 Apr 96 14:51:47 PDT From: jlc@triple-i.com (Jeff Caruso) Message-Id: <9604092151.AA20994@siesta> Received: by pak (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA12791; Tue, 9 Apr 96 14:51:46 PDT To: nomic-official@teleport.com Subject: OFF: Judgement of CFJ 864: TRUE Cc: jlc@triple-i.com Sender: owner-nomic-official@teleport.com Reply-To: nomic-discussion@teleport.com Precedence: bulk Status: RO ====================================================================== JUDGEMENT OF CFJ 864 Under the Rules of Agora as they currently exist, no Player can become part of the Jurisdiction of any Compact without eir consent. ====================================================================== Judge: elJefe Judgement: TRUE Caller: favor Barred: On Hold: dcuman Eligible: Andre, Chuck, Coren, Doug, elJefe, favor, Jtael, Kelly, KoJen, Michael, Morendil, Murphy, Narcisse, Oerjan, Steve, Swann, Vanyel, Zefram ====================================================================== History: Called by favor, Fri, 5 Apr 96 09:26:21 EST Assigned to elJefe, Fri, 5 Apr 96 07:20:17 PST Judged TRUE by elJefe, Tue, 9 Apr 96 14:50:18 PDT ====================================================================== Reasons and Arguments, caller: Rule 1617 states, in part, In any case, no Player shall ever be made part of the Jurisdiction of any Compact without eir consent. So the Statement is clearly true unless this paragraph of 1617 is overridden by some higher-precedence Rule. A Player has suggested that the language in Rule 1446, which says of Contests The Jurisdiction of a Contest is permitted to contain any Player. conflicts with 1617, and by virtue of a lower rule-number, takes precendece over it. This is, however, incorrect: the Rules are not in fact in conflict. Rule 1446 merely grants permission; it says that there is nothing per se illegal about the Jurisdiction of a Contest being such as to contain any given Player. It says nothing of mechanism; it would, for instance, be absurd to claim that the motion of the wind, or the waves of the sea, had, by Rule 1446, caused all Players with nicknames beginning with "R" to belong to all Contests. Rule 1446 is silent on the question of how a Player comes to be in the Jurisdiction of the Contest, clearly leaving that question up to other Rules. One of the other Rules that addresses the question of mechanism is 1617, and it quite clearly prohibits any mechanism that would bring a Player into a Jurisdiction against eir will. While I think the Statement is quite clearly true, the fact that a dispute arose at all suggests that the wording of the Rules in question could be improved. ====================================================================== Decision of Judge elJefe: TRUE Rule 1011 (MI=2) says: No property of any entity shall be changed except in accordance with procedures specified by the Rules, when that entity possesses that property solely by the virtue of the Rules defining that property. This Rule takes precedence over Rule 1446 (MI=1) and other rules regarding Jurisdictions. Therefore the Jurisdiction of a Compact may not be changed except by procedures specified by the Rules. The rules which specify procedures for a player to become part of the Jurisdiction of a Compact are Rules 719, 766, 1446, 1455, 1533, and 1539, quoted below. Rule 1612 says that a Compact's Jurisdiction can vary over the period of its existence, but does not itself specify any procedures for doing so. Similarly, Rule 1446 asserts the ability of a Contest's Jurisdiction to contain any player, but fails to specify a procedure for doing so. In each of the cases where a procedure is specified, becoming a part of the Jurisdiction requires either consent of the Player (to become Contest- master), or an explicit act of the player notifying the administrator and/or the Notary that one is joining the Jurisdiction, or that one is a Foundor (and therefore part of the original Jurisdiction). Such notification constitutes consent. I therefore find the statement TRUE, in that by Rule 1011 the only way for a Player to become part of the Jurisdiction of any of the current types of Organizations requires such notification. ====================================================================== Additional Evidence: ---------------------------------------- Rule 1011/2 (Semimutable, MI=2) Game Entities May Not Be Arbitrarily Changed No property of any entity shall be changed except in accordance with procedures specified by the Rules, when that entity possesses that property solely by the virtue of the Rules defining that property. ---------------------------------------- Rule 719/2 (Mutable, MI=1) Joining a Group A Player shall be added to the Membership of a Group only when: a) the Player to be added is not already a Member of another Group; b) the Player to be added has sent the Vizier of the Group in question a message requesting to be added to the Membership of that Group; and c) the addition of that Player to that Group's Membership is otherwise permitted by that Group's Ordinances and the Rules. ---------------------------------------- Rule 766/6 (Mutable, MI=1) Groups A "Group" is an Organization of Class Group; this Class is a valid Class of Organization. All Groups are Public Organizations. The Jurisdiction of a Group's Compact is permitted to contain any Player, but no Player is permitted to be part of the Jurisdictions of the Compacts of more than one Group simultaneously. Each Group shall possess exactly one Treasury. A Group must have exactly three Foundors, who constitute the Group's initial Jurisdiction. Both the Administrator and the Executor of a Group must be part of the Jurisdiction of that Group's Compact. The following definitions pertain to Groups: * Ordinances: a synonym for a Group's Compact. * Ordinancekeepor: a synonym for the Group's Administrator * Vizier: a synonym for the Group's Executor * Membership: the Jurisdiction of the Group's Compact. ---------------------------------------- Rule 1446/8 (Mutable, MI=1) Contests A "Contest" is an Organization of Class Contest; this Class is a valid Class of Organization. All Contests are Public Organizations. The Jurisdiction of a Contest is permitted to contain any Player. Each Contest shall possess exactly one Treasury. The Executor of a Contest is, at all times, its Administrator. A Contest must have exactly one Foundor, who becomes the Contest's initial Administrator. The following definitions pertain to Contests: * Regulations: a synonym for a Contest's Compact. * Contestmaster: a synonym for a Contest's Administrator. * Contest Fund: a synonym for a Contest's Treasury. * Contestant: a Player who is part of a Contest's Jurisdiction, but who is not the Contest's Administrator. A Contest is created by distributing a copy of its initial Regulations to the Public Forum, along with the Contest's Name, any provisions to the contrary in the default Organization Rules notwithstanding. ---------------------------------------- Rule 1455/1 (Mutable, MI=1) Contracts Let there be a class of Organization known as a Contract, whose Compact can also be referred to as a Contract. A Contract consists only of Warranties, which are known as its Terms, the Players within its Jurisdiction are known as the Parties to the Contract, and the Administrator for all Contracts is the Notary. Contracts do not possess Treasuries, nor do they possess Executors. Contracts have the legal force to impose penalties upon Parties that do not abide by the Terms of the Contract. Parties that are unwilling or unable to abide by the Terms are said to be in Breach of the Contract. A Contract may specify the following: i) What actions the parties to the contract are required to perform, or are prohibited from performing, and under what conditions these requirements or prohibitions have force. ii) What penalties are imposed upon a party who Breaches the Contract. The Foundors of a Contract must be the set of all Parties to the Contract. In addition to what other Rules require them to provide to the Notary, the Foundors must also specify the following information: i) The identity of each Party to the Contract, each of whom must be named in the Terms of the Contract itself. Providing a unique Name for the Contract is optional, this takes precedence over the general requirements for information provided. If no Name is provided, the Notary must provide a unique Name for the Contract and provide this Name to all Parties. Parties can then change the Name as provided for in the Contract or in other Rules. A Contract is Private, and the Notary shall send a notification to all the Parties of a Contract As Soon As Possible after it has been legally entered into. The Contract shall be in force no sooner than the moment of that notification. A Contract ceases to have force at the moment it is dissolved in accordance with its Terms, or one or more of the Parties of the Contract ceases to be a Player, or the Contract is breached as described elsewhere. When a Contract is changed (including any change in the Parties) a current Party to the Contract must inform the Notary of the change as soon as possible after it occurs. If a Party is being added to, or removed from, the Contract, the change only has effect if _that_ Party sends the notification. The Notary shall forward this notification of change to all current Parties of the Contract As Soon As Possible thereafter. ---------------------------------------- Rule 1533/4 (Mutable, MI=1) Creation of Organizations, and Their Compacts Any Player is permitted to submit to the Notary, at any time, an Application to Create an Organization. Such an Application, to have legal effect, must specify the proposed class, name, and Compact of the prospective Organization, along with any other information that is required in order to create an Organization of the class specified. If, within a period of seven days, the Notary receives identical Applications to Create an Organization from as many distinct Players as required by the Rules pertaining to the class of the Organization to be created, the Organization is created. The Players who submitted the Applications in question are known as the Foundors of the new Organization. ---------------------------------------- Rule 1539/0 (Mutable, MI=1) Regulations and Membership of Contests A Contest's Regulations consist only of Statutes, any one of which is referred to as a Regulation. No Player within Jurisdiction of a Contest's Regulations is bound by a Regulation or combination of Regulations that conflict with the Rules. The Regulations can specify the following: i) How a Contestmaster is replaced. No person may become Contestmaster without eir consent. If left unspecified, the Contestmaster cannot change while the Contest exists. ii) How the Currencies in the Contest Fund shall be spent. If this is not specified, they may only be spent when the Rules require it. iii) The amount of the Entry Fee for the Contest, in the form of units of any specific Currency. iv) Additional restrictions on Players to become Contestants, and conditions under which Contestants cease to be Contestants. A Player becomes a Contestant by notifying the Contestmaster and paying the prescribed Entry Fee to the Contest Fund. A Contestant may quit a Contest at any time by so notifying the Contestmaster. A Contestmaster may resign at any time by posting a message to that effect to the Public Forum, at which time e ceases to be Contestmaster. ---------------------------------------- Rule 1612/0 (Mutable, MI=1) Organizations' Compacts For each Organization, let there be a SLC associated with that Organization called its Compact. Unless otherwise specified in the Compact, a Compact can be changed by the unanimous consent of all the Players within its Jurisdiction. The Administrator of an Organization is the Maintainer of the Organization's Compact. The Jurisdiction of an Organization's Compact can vary over the period of its existence. the Administrator of the Organization shall maintain a record of the Compact's Jurisdiction. The Compact of an Organization ceases to exist when the Organization ceases to exist. Regards, - elJefe, Judge ****************************************************************** Dr. Jeffrey L. Caruso Autologic Information International