Re: [mmox] The Story So Far...

[Jon Watte <[e-mail]>]

Mark Lentczner wrote:
> While there is plenty to do and discuss in order to develop OGP into a 
> fully workable protocol, we think it represents an initial shared 
> vision of an interoperable protocol and hope it can evolve and grow in 
> the context of this group.

In my opinion, OGP is too Second Life specific to serve as a useful 
basis for a vendor neutral interoperability standard. If that is the 
basis for this IETF working group, then there's no need for me, or any 
other virtual world vendors, to be here.

Standardizing Second Life protocols might be useful for the Second Life 
sub-universe of virtual worlds, but I think trying to call it "generally 
interoperable" would be stretching the truth past bursting. There's too 
much content and too many players in production today using vastly 
different technologies for that to work.

See a different message for what I think is a great use case/scenario 
for what "interoperability" actually looks like (which I think we need 
to agree on before lower-level details like what kinds of protocols 
we'll need can be defined).

Sincerely,

jw