Re: [mmox] Creating walled gardens considered harmful

[Jon Watte <[e-mail]>]

Morgaine wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Jon Watte <[e-mail] 
> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>      
>     The question is: would you want to work on a standard, if you knew
>     that the standard would only be adopted by 3 out of 50 virtual
>     world platforms in the world?
>
>
> We're not working on a standard for 3/50.  Instead, we're placing the 
> requirements of the 50 platforms (or as many as we can) into the 
> problem space, and analysing each one separately into components so 
> that we can either find commonalities or else keep the requirements 
> disjoint.  And then, once we see the whole problem space as a set of 
> necessary component requirements, we can finally synthesize solutions 
> that meet 50/50, or at least a high number.

That's great!

I think that it's reasonable to believe that the 50 different 
technologies will not each go back and re-implement the entire 
client/server simulation/graphics communication stack. Thus, I think 
that requirement should be placed into the problem space.
Do you agree?

Sincerely,

jw