Public Interface
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The Law of the objct sea states that all entities are sovereign bodies. They have
a virtual "skin" around them that is impenetrable to any other entity. The only
case where this is not true is for matter, which can be be consumed and manipulated
by creatures and machines. Matter can have a public interface, in which case it is
considered packaged matter.
The only way that one entity can interact with another is through the public
interface that each entity presents to the cybersea sea. The public interface
can be compared to a secretary. All dealings with the office behind the secretary
must go through the secretary and no one is allowed past her.
S/he takes all requests and messages and then goes into the office,
returns with the answer or reply, if any, and then gets on with the next request.
KOSH also allows for promotion and reflection. These are advanced services which allow
entities to take a much more active role in the cybersea. Promotion refers
to the ability of an entity to actively promote, advertise and register its
skills/actions/talents for use by other entities. Reflection refers to the ability of
one entity to interrogate another entity and discover its skills/actions/talents
dynamically.
A feature of KOSH that arises from the use of blueprints is that the
construction service can quiz the dynamic cybersea as it is building an
object, allowing for more efficient static bindings to be made if required
or desired.
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