Re: [mmox] MMOX: Strawman scope/goals/approach

yes, but a reference implementation is not a work item on the group's  
charter.

and personally... ugh.. i've seen waaay too many times when specific  
implementation decisions for reference implementations were mistaken  
for protocol requirements and pain ensued.

i even prefer the term "example code" instead of "reference  
implementation" for this reason.

-cheers
-meadhbh

On Feb 26, 2009, at 5:36 PM, Gareth Nelson wrote:

> A reference implementation is always a handy thing to have :)
>
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Meadhbh Hamrick (Infinity)
> <infinity@lindenlab.com> wrote:
>> i don't think we get to mandate what code people implement the  
>> protocol in,
>> but i would certainly add lisp, smalltalk and occam to the list.
>>
>> seriously thought... remember... we're talking about a wire- 
>> protocol, not a
>> library that implements the protocol.
>>
>> On Feb 26, 2009, at 2:31 PM, Jon Watte wrote:
>>
>>> Gareth Nelson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> any code should be produced in. My vote is for python and C.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Let me vote for Lua and C++, and then the OpenSim people can vote  
>>> for C#
>>> and Java and we have all the bases covered :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>> games are relevant (after all, MMORPGs for example are just huge
>>>> virtual worlds with game rules thrown in), I fail to see how  
>>>> networked
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think that's a common mis-conception. Most (almost all) MMOGs do  
>>> not
>>> have much in the way of persistency, other than character  
>>> possessions and
>>> stats. They also have a very static world, that generally does not  
>>> allow
>>> users to move things around or place new things into the world.  
>>> Finally,
>>> they do not support any form of UGC, which I think is more or less a
>>> requirement for a "real" virtual world. Lacking all three means  
>>> that the
>>> technical job of implementing and running the MMORPG is much  
>>> easier, but it
>>> also puts them on a lower rung of the expressiveness. A VW could  
>>> express a
>>> MMORPG (with significant overhead compared to the MMORPG itself),  
>>> but a
>>> MMORPG couldn't express a VW.
>>>
>>>> Practically everything people do online is "multiuser", and lots of
>>>> things are "massively multiuser" - look at any big site such as
>>>> wikipedia for example.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> "What is virtual worlds" has been a general question for a long  
>>> time, but
>>> I believe the "rough consensus" answer is that it's at least:
>>>
>>> Interactive
>>> Persistent
>>> Identity Based
>>> Collaborative
>>> Supports UGC
>>> (controversial) Based on a 3D Simulation
>>>
>>> But, if we believe that we all need to agree on exactly what a  
>>> virtual
>>> world is before we can make progress, experience shows we won't be  
>>> able to
>>> make progress at all.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> jw
>>>
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