How Raid lockouts might work

When i first read about lockout it was in the lastest weekly update, which states: "Obtaining loot from a given encounter means that character is not eligible to receive loot from the same encounter again in a given calendar week. This is often referred to as a "Lockout." I italicized “character” above, because if you have multiple Raid-ready characters, you can run the Raid again on a different character - and the Lockout isn't applied to it. Each encounter has a fixed inventory of items it can award to players, e.g., certain pieces of gear or weapons can only drop from certain encounters. " That first part "character is not eligible to receive loot from the same encounter again in a given calendar week." does not seem to suggest you can't come across the same "encounter" again (in other words fight the same boss again). It does seem like a wired way to suggest you can't fight the same bosses again in a given week, but I understood it to mean you can do the raid agian, but won't get loot from the ones you already have in that given week (for each character). Or i might be wrong. As datto said he might have gotten it incorrect, but he's trying to get some sort of clarification now.

If it's anything like WoW (Which I have played for years now) each player will be assigned to a specific Raid ID# once they clear a boss in the raid. This means that this person is now saved to this specific instance of the raid and they cannot join a new raid that still has any previous bosses up. This also means that any players who wish to join you in your raid will have to skip any bosses that you have already downed. But probably the biggest thing about raid lockouts is that all members of the raid group usually share the SAME raid ID. This means that if one of those individuals continues the raid with 5 brand new people, when the previous 5 go back into the raid then they will lose out on any progress that the previous member completed with the five new members. I know it's a little confusing and I may even be wrong, but I'm just going off of how WoW does their raid lockouts.