Eliot, Picking one piece out of your MUD... > I've floated an idea in draft-lear-mud-framework-00.txt which talks a > little about this. The idea is to learn what the Thing is and then have > its manufacturer communicate to a deployment how the thing is intended > to be used. This approach worries me. While the manufacturer might not object to this, the user and the system integrator should. The fact that a device was manufactured for foo should not stop it being used for bar. Adrian