Re: [mmox] charter scope, thinking horizontally

[Larry Masinter <[e-mail]>]

> If a virtual world exposed a XMPP chat service, and SIP endpoints for 
> each avatar, using the protocols that already exist, then what else is 
> there to do to declare this working?
...
> The only one I can think of is properly tying presence into the SIP 
> call, such that the voice comes from the right 3D location (we use an 
> out-of-bound message for that right now).

Is there a standard way of relating avatar identity and personal
identity? Should these be distinct? Are the states of present/idle/location
from XMPP appropriate for avatar-in-world? Are there special
in-world states that would need to be mapped into XMPP presence
information ("in-world but dead" in a combat world, for example.)
Are there any issues with synchronizing XMPP messages and in-world
events?

I think to "declare this working", you'd have a document that described
how this would work, and multiple independent interoperable implementations,
with satisfactory interoperability.

Since I've not seen any jabber-with-avatar services actually working,
there are probably other technical questions that would arise during
the course of implementation.

And, of course, you'd have to decide as a group to settle on
XMPP and not IRC, not something based on OGP, (some profile of) 
SIP and not some other voice server, sharing service, etc.

It's always good to start with something you think is easy.

Larry