[alicebot-archcomm] Welcome new Arch Comm member

[Dr. Rich Wallace]

The stanard is very stable :-)  Nobody has modified it for a while.

I am also working on another approach to the formal specification, under
"Program M" in the downloads section of the alicebot.org web site.
http://www.alicebot.org/SETL.txt

If I had to explain the difference between the two, it might be that a
standards committee and a mathematical computer scientist have different
definitions of the term "formal specification."


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