Re: [mmox] the arguments are sidelining people...

[Kajikawa Jeremy <[e-mail]>]

currently I am seeing argument with regards the following

  Which virtual world system is more .... <<< CAN WE QUIT THE PISSING
CONTEST?

  to DRM or not to DRM... allow encryption == yes,  mandate it,  hell
no...

I will not mandate screwing over implimentation with damaged and
suspicious
  black boxed code for my own implimentations and any form of DRM is
easily
  subverted where a "trusted" party performs the subversion of its core
function.

reference = rc4 and other cipher algorythms having TLS support and NULL
encryption,
  this is perfectly valid and provides a hole regardless of system.

Either the content creators wake up and accept that each Virtual World
IS different
  along with that eventually the web itself will become 3D and people
are going to need
  their services a hell of a lot more for throwaway or personalized
items.

Each "system" may be as diverse as a "Star Trek" simulation and a
"Battle of Troy"  or
  become as diverse as the "Star Wars" and other Role-play systems
backgrounds...

Personally I can see people walking around various VWs as both Medievil
and
   Technology-expanded variants... will they meet? yes... where? in any
"open"
  or otherwise "public" virtual world with an interop agreement...

My own personal view of virtual worlds has been affected by a LOT of my
reading
  material and I dont expect anyone to actually believe how fast I
read...

since I can read somewhere in the order of 1-2 pages per minute without
  exaggeration at all...

Ive also looked through a good dozen or more RPG systems and see
something of
  a "Rifts" crossed with "Stargate" crossed with "contemporary now"
occuring...

 a LOT of the VWs are *escapes* from the real world and need to keep
that function,
  walking into a "Swords and Sorcery" simulation from a Tech sim would
be a social
  no-no so I am asking about making options here...

I may be coming across as harsh with the following but this is from the
perspective
  of a potential developer on any of the VWs or a potential rival...


1: Identity		-  This is the User Account and what access is required?
2: Representation  -  This is the Avatar or focus object...
3: Connection	    -  What form of connectivity occurs?
4: Transport         -  Is anything actually needing to be transferred
cross-system? if so...what?

5:  serialization of data - this needs to be agnostic and readily
available...

For the above I submit the following as usable...

1: Identity		I submit use of OpenID and OAuth for current mechanisms and
				also recommend requiring some kind of SSL or TLS.
2: Representation  I submit this to be *optional*...
    First access to any system - provision of a "TEMPORARY" account
   (garbage collect on expiry or mark "free" for re-use are choices
here).

3: Connection    I see this as actually bogus,  only the Identity
requires
   Connection and Transport of secure data,  anything of the AV
transferred would be
  usable for "common server" data,

4: Transport  as a subsection of 3 and requiring 5: Serialization.

llsd is a form of XML for my reading and it appears to conform to a file
format more
  than XML does...  make the tags for the angle brackets relevant.

I submit the following to allow mixed human readable AND machine
readable
  data content for use of mixed systems...

<object label="some name">
  <attribute name="UUID">0000-0000-0000-0000-0010</>
  <attribute name="asset-0">0000-0000-0000-0000-1000</>
  <attribute name="asset-1">0000-0000-0000-0000-1001</>
  <attribute name="asset-2">0000-0000-0000-0000-1002</>
  <attribute name="asset-3">0000-0000-0000-0000-1003</>
  <attribute name="asset-4">0000-0000-0000-0000-1004</>
  <attribute name="prim">encoding:sha1:encodeddatastring</>
  <attribute name="mesh">encoding:sha1:encodeddatastring</>
</>

The above is submitted as an example for what I have in mind...
  extensible attributes.

attributes may be added or edited by the original author or as technical
  limitations can permit legally.