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Protocol schema

A protocol schema is a systematic way of describing the set of rules which constitute a protocol. The schema is divided into four sections:

• Classes - the groups of people who interact according to the protocol. This section should specify the relation between each class and any hierarchy within it. For example, that waiters serve customers in a restaurant, but that customers are served according to gender and then in decreasing order of age.
• Dress and symbols - any restrictions or requirements relating to clothing, and any symbols such as collars.
• Speech rules - rules relating to silence, forms of address, speaking only when spoken to, or ways of referring to oneself or others.
• Deportment - rules governing how the individual walks, stands, kneels, or otherwise acts physically, in ways not covered by the previous sections.

Within D/s, it is natural that more emphasis will be placed on the submissive when writing out a protocol.

See also

• Marketplace protocol schema
• Roissy protocol schema
• Estate protocol schema

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