Consensuality  is the active collaboration and cooperation for the self-benefit, join aim, profit, pleasure and well-being of all concerned. In the case of social and business netwoks, this consent often includes that of people not directly involved - primary partners, voluntaries and other parties are affected by agreements, sometimes not written, not signed, ad-hoc established and based on common sense.

Defining consent can sometimes be tricky. If someone consents under pressure, we don't think that meets the "active collaboration" criterion. And you can't consent to something you don't know about: "Well you didn't say I couldn't send you an email when you agreed to participate" .

Studies examine chemistry instruction from a perspective based primarily on John Ziman's communal knowledge model for science. Several lessons by three different teachers at three different schools were observed and audiotaped. Data were examined to demonstrate the occurrence of certain specific pedagogic tactics embodied in some metacommunicative teacher utterances within the chemistry classroom teaching/learning discourse. These tactics reflect teachers' concerns for: (1) consensuality of their discourse; (2) consensibility of their teaching utterances; (3) commonality of the frame of reference with their students; and (4) the commensurability of the subject of their teaching discourse with course requirements, curricular structure, and nature of the discipline.
In addition, the study relates these four tactics to four analogous pedagogic concerns on the part of a teacher. In turn, these are developed as four constructs for use by researchers or practitioners in recasting the original "pedagogic problematic," namely, the difficulty many students experience in learning chemistry. The problem is reinterpreted from the point of view of pedagogic consensuality, consensibility, commonality of frame of reference, and commensurability. The nature of these findings is discussed, and their implications for practice and as a new focus for teacher education are outlined.

Consensuality is the active collaboration for the mutual benefir and well-being of all concerned. In the case of social networks, this consent often includes that of people far away are affected by non-written and non-signed contracts and based on mutual coomitments for a join aim.

European Technological Platform in Trust. TRUST ONLINE. Trust for consensuality is in reference to Web and Network based.
Building Trust: Trust is an essential basis for a productive, satisfying and fun business information and communication environment. Suspicion corrodes working relationships and undermines people’s confidence in themselves and their colleagues. Leaders need to offer trust, since the only way to prove whether others are trustworthy or not is by experience. Organizational leaders have nearly all the power, so it’s usually up to them to set the ball rolling. Trust is always a gift. As a leader, you need to be the one who begins the giving process.


What does it take to initiate a process of trust?

Courage, certainly, and the willingness to take a risk. Employees who have been denied trust, maybe for years, don’t find it easy to accept responsibility in an instant. You’ll need to help them rebuild their confidence in themselves. You’ll probably have to deal with more than few cynics as well: people who claim to approve the idea of trust, yet constantly find reasons why it shouldn’t be this person, in this circumstance, at this time..

CONSENSUALITY

Consent: Compliance with or in approval of what is done or proposed by another.

We talk about consent a lot. There is a very good reason for that. The line between D/s and abuse is consent. Non-consensual control, manipulation, application of pain or direction is abuse or assault.

However, as in most things the meaning of consent is far from simple. When a submissive is new in their exploration of the D/s and BDSM worlds they are simply virgins. They have no personal experience of many or most of the things which now confront them. What they do have is ideas, thoughts, hopes, dreams, feelings, beliefs and desires. These may or may not apply in reality. A person can 'think' they will enjoy something only to find that in reality they do not. So we are immediately faced with a dilemma.

As the community becomes more open and readily accessible the numbers of new Dominant's and submissives is rapidly increasing. With this increase comes an increasing number of problems.

It is impossible to truthfully consent to something you have never experienced. You can consent to trying something, but cannot accurately state that you will enjoy or like it until after it occurs. This means that in some ways the consent offered is not a blanket approval of action. In many cases it really means that the submissive will 'consider' trying something to see if they enjoy it. From the Dominant's standpoint this is treading on shaky ground.

Many new Dominant's and submissives spend a great deal of time looking for and searching out someone (frequently on the Internet community). Often they find potential partners who live at some distance from them physically. This can lead to protracted long distance cyber and phone relationships. These types of communication can foster the building up of scenario's, ideas and expectations.

When the two manage to arrange a meeting they bring with them all of the baggage which has accumulated from their interaction. Many vacate simple safety issues in lieu of their 'feeling' of everything being perfect. They are SO eager to jump in that they want to play within hours of a first meeting. Sometimes they go so far as to pre-scene this meeting based on the 'ideas' that they have allowed to become 'limits'. It is not terribly uncommon for a new submissive to agree to a first meeting which places her in a foreign state, in a motel room, naked, kneeling and waiting for 'her Master' to show up.

In addition the new Dominant comes prepared with the 'expectations' of the submissive to perform this 'scene'. In many cases this may be the very first scene the Dominant has ever tried and s/he may have or feel extreme pressure to 'meet the submissives need'. This can be a setup for true disaster.

This week the news was filled with an ongoing court case in NY wherein a woman is suing a man whom she claims raped her. She made contact with him on the Internet and engaged in extensive correspondence (some of which is court record), and phone conversations. After 5-6 months they arranged such a meeting. They engaged 'in-scene' for nearly 20 hours. Afterwards she accused him of rape, rough sex, forcible sodomy, assault, battery, various kinds of bondage and torture and a few other things. She agreed that she talked to him about her interest in BDSM but she claims that she was 'interested in him' and 'played along' because she liked him. She acknowledges voluntarily meeting him.

This is important. Early, heavy scening with an unknown person forces assumptions of consent on both people. A submissive can and may feel pressured to go quite far in order not to displease their new Dominant. They may agree to things under duress or contact pressure. A Dominant can and may feel pressured to perform to the 'ideas' they have fostered through prior communication. They can be a total novice doing things they are not really prepared for. It is simply impossible to 'know' a person you have just met. You cannot know their body language, the suggestions and subtle signals necessary to truly read someone's responses. This type of pre-scene creation can and does kill people. It can create situations much like I just described which are becoming much more common.

Many people believe that 'consent' is a license. That it gives them a blanket permission to 'do' what they want to do. This is simply not true. Consent at the beginning of a relationship is more the 'option' to explore further. It offers no guarantee to the Dominant or submissive that they will be held blameless for what occurs. Those that engage in sudden intense sceneing willfully place their reputations, careers, family, and life on the line. When you are dealing with a stranger you cannot guess how they will react 3 days after a scene when they bottom out and you are not there. Remorse, pain, regret, embarrassment, shame, anger, feelings of diminished self respect and outright rage can and will drive people to take actions against this person they have 'consented' to scene with.

Those actions can reveal the other persons kink to their entire community. The person may lose a spouse, children, job, respectability or more or less everything including the risk of imprisonment all to meet the needs of instant gratification. It simply is not worth it.

Initial limits are just that...initial. They should be expected to change, evolve and alter over years and experiences. They are merely a way of offering an 'idea' of the range of interest that the individual believes they are interested in pursuing. Consent can best be considered to be fluid. In addition to the above, it should be noted that everyone is not the same every day. There are days when consent to the range of play will be much wider than on other days. These variables can be effected by mood, health, stress and many other things. Assumptions that consent is constant can and will lead to problems.

The pollution of information (INFOLLUTION) is the excess of information and messaging that reduce the quality of the initial information or the communicatio

All start with an unique user semantic-profile, maybe associated to an unique IP Identificator (linked to Ipv6 IPs). To have a unique [ULICA] user micro-profile accessible, feasible, always up-to-date which allow the preservation of the user privacy and control of personal data and provate information, the identification, authentication, authorisation, localisation and characterisation (accessibility/usability defined by context and user) for trusting digital relationships and enhancing the network Consensuality for enabling collaboration and improve the results of social, industrial and business distributed and diverse virtual networks. 

Federation key to NETWORK SECURITY SERVICES

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