On 1/31/2021 1:42 PM, ais523 via agora-discussion wrote: > On Sun, 2021-01-31 at 21:17 +0000, Falsifian via agora-discussion wrote: > At present, if we unperson everyone, AIAN will prevent the unpersonning > proposal passing. > > With a change like this, AIAN would no longer directly block a rule > change that unpersons everyone, and it might be hard to recover. This > would happen even if the two systems existed in parallel.
It's thinking about the Distributor's "CANNOT deregister or be deregistered" in R2575. Now, citizenship is defined as a switch for persons only. And to register is to "flip a person's citizenship", so a non-person can't register. So far so good. HOWEVER, deregistration is not the exact opposite of "registration". The exact, but parenthetical rules definition is here: "deregister (cease being a player)". Therefore, deregistration itself is the act of "ceasing to be a player" that may be independent of a switch. Now, the "definition" of Player is here: > A registered person is a Player Note that this isn't actually phrased as a definition! It simply says that if you're registered, that makes you a player. It does *not* explicitly exclude non-registered entities from *also* being players![*] Taken together, this implies that the Distributor would not be deregistered, and would continue to be a player, even if e ceased being a person. [*] yes yes I know, in the context of the rest of the paragraph, it could be read as a definition. It could also be read as a non-exclusive categorization. -G.
