Re: [mmox] Creating walled gardens considered harmful

[Jon Watte <[e-mail]>]

James Stallings II wrote:
> On what would seem to be the more mainstream topic of the use-case, I 
> think Jon left off perhaps the most fundamental interop capability of 
> all from his list: that of exchange of text communications ("chat") 
> between endusers.

I think those three things were Morgaines. My use cases are, as always, 
here:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jwatte-mmox-use-cases-00

The three capabilities I quoted from Morgaine's e-mail aren't use cases; 
they are possible capabilities. And, interestingly, those capabilities 
by themselves do not deliver any actual use case to the end user (as we 
agreed: necessary but not sufficient).

I suggest you read up on the five use cases listed in the above link. If 
there is something you think should be delivered before that, or instead 
of that, then please formulate them as actual end user use cases! (I've 
been asking for that for a while, to the point where it's starting to 
sound repetetive, yet there are no other use cases of record)


> I might also point out that this interop requires absolutely no 
> references to objects, worlds, primitives or render-specific technologies.


It does require a user-to-user text chat capability, which some of those 
virtual worlds that have evolved to be voice based don't actually have :-)

Sincerely,

jw