The Green paper should be provide a convincing education to others at OMG and outside the agent community. Process view of our next steps Lay of the Agent WG land. We are still cleaning up the green paper. We are now mining it for RFP ideas to get a roadmap and initiate some high priority RFPs. Frank McCabe will write a piece on the value-added to current OMG technologies.
Protocols are just patterns.
Not as a class template but as a process template. Broadcast or multicast to many or all instances of a class. Discussion led to other suggestions Templatize operations or relationships or anything. Examples of multiple roles for same object and its relationship to an object which has different interfaces. Object can have many classifications at the same time and they can change.