Mayayana
| >Tony, just a comment here but someone working in IT would typically use | >"policy" to describe what you are referring to as a "protocol", which | >could be part the reason that people are being so argumentative. | | I don't know that usage. I'm not involved in IT in any way, so if | there's a jargon use for "policy", then it's new to me. | | I'd appreciate a definition of "policy" as it applies to IT work.

It typically refers to permissions/restrictions that IT people apply to employees. On Windows Pro installs there's a utility known as Group Policy Editor. It's a sort of super duper Registry tweaker, allowing network administrators to clandestinely override employee Registry settings with semi-secret group policy settings. For instance, IE settings exist under the \Software\Internet Explorer\ keys, but those can be overridden by setting the same values under the \Software\Policies\Internet Explorer\ keys... Leastways that's the normal protocol for use of the GPE. :)