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Lawson English <lenglish5@cox.net> Wed, 18 February 2009 18:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mmox] The Story So Far...
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Hurliman, John wrote:
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> It's my understanding that Open Grid Protocol (OGP) is a Linden Lab project; part of the Linden Lab AWG which had no active contributors that were also active developers of libSecondLife/libOpenMetaverse or OpenSim during the time the OGP protocols were designed. The "agent domain" concept in OGP terminology brings in a host of assumptions that are diametrically opposed to the goals of libOpenMetaverse and OpenSim (supporting millions of independent administrative domains and service providers).
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> The current MMOX charter makes no reference to specific implementations such as Linden Lab's OGP, which I think is the correct approach.
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>   

The Agent Domain vs HyperGrid models can be seen as somewhat extreme 
opposites in m dimensions of some n-dimensional space. There's plenty of 
room for cooperation/collaboration/assimilation/mishhashing in the middle.

And other models might address n+1 dimensions as well.


Lawson

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