[alicebot-archcomm] Welcome new Arch Comm member

[Gary Dubuque]

Before I launch off into some discussion about improvements to AIML or the
structure of the Alice organization I'd like to find the ground rules.

Where are the specifications for AIML?  The last document I have is called
"A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation Working Draft 25 October 2001 (rev 006)".  Is
there some document we can continue to publish with "official" tacked to it?
Maybe something without the "Working Draft" label?

Then next I'd tackle some house cleaning like the few little subjects I've
already asked.  Can we agree that the last sentence is the one used to match
against <that>? (I think so.)  Can we agree that a pattern with multiple
adjacent wildcards consumes individual words until the last wild card in the
series? (I hope so.)

Implementation orientated, do stars nest through <srai> tags so when you use
them after </srai> they are from the current context and not from the last
match that took place, that is, not inherited?

These first few issues seem to be a good format for making things become
established.  I really don't know how this process works yet.  Once I
understand the way we complete our decisions, I can feel comfortable in
exploring what practically can be done to improve the standard.  Improvement
is what we are striving for, isn't it?

Regards,
  Gary Dubuque



-----Original Message-----
From: alicebot-archcomm-admin@list.alicebot.org
[mailto:alicebot-archcomm-admin@list.alicebot.org]On Behalf Of Dr. Rich
Wallace
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2003 1:25 AM
To: alicebot-archcomm@alicebot.org
Subject: [alicebot-archcomm] Welcome new Arch Comm member



Let's have a warm Arch Comm welcome for our newest member Gary Dubuque of
Program N fame.

Gary, just to bring you up to speed, the two hot topics on this mailing
list right now have nothing to do with AIML standards:

1. Should Arch Comm members also be dues paying members of the A.I.
Foundation?

2. Should code posted to the mailing lists be considered public domain and
if so, under which license?

(This leads me to think there should be a meta-topic, should the Arch Comm
even be the appropirate forum for these questions, or should the people
who want to disucss these issues become members of the now-dormant
Advisory Board?)


--
Dr. Rich
W A L L A C E
ALICE A.I. Foundation
drwallace@www.alicebot.org




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