Several experiments in elementary self-modifying protocol games, such as Nomic

Abstract:  There is the idea that network protocols can be changed by the computers that use them. Such protocols are called open protocols. At this moment, open protocols do not exist. To better understand the principles of open protocols, researchers build (and play with) simplified models, referred to as selfmodifying protocol games. Nomic, for example, is such a game. Most of the activities in the area are informal, and ‘fail’ to materialize into results that can be applied to the construction of open protocols. This paper is the 3rd of a sequence of papers that tries to approach the field more formally. It contains a number of experiments in elementary self-modifying protocol games, of which the results are meant to provide additional insight in the development of more complicated such games.