Scholars such as Oliphant [Oli97] have accepted that many of the popular existing
definitions of information are inadequate for their work and have developed
their own definitions for the purposes of their research. We believe that the proposed
definition of communication is a universal, domain independent definition
that allows for many of the concerns motivating other definitions of information.
We thus feel that this definition serves as a common definition of communication for the field, providing a common language. Additional constraints may be added
to this, but they are not part of the fundamental nature of communication; they are
additional constraints that may or may not be worthy of discussion based on their
own merits.