HG "technical briefs"

[gwyneth]

I'd like to see brief "position papers" to supplement the TOS--basically three or four paragraphs to describe the currently official positions on what's OK and what's not OK for that specific activity.

Collating this information would save a lot of time, support, misunderstandings, and bad feelings. Separate briefs could be updated more easily and frequently than the TOS, and, if each were issued with a date (and revised), would allow everybody to refer to the same, definitive, page. (Especially useful when 'definitive' isn't.) More from a technical/support perspective, not the policy approach of the TOS, so "discouraged" and "only under some conditions" could be used.

The ones we most need, IMO, are:

• Chat apps that are OK and those that are not.
• Video playing/streaming/whatever
• File downloads and uploads--again, what's ok and what's not.
• Games (could be split into several)
• App ons, such as chat, downloads, arcades

I'm sure others could add to that list.