[mmox] Loosely Coupled Virtual Worlds

Jason Giglio <gigstaggart@gmail.com> Wed, 25 March 2009 22:05 UTC

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Subject: [mmox] Loosely Coupled Virtual Worlds
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Since it has come up several times that there is interest in a more
lightweight proposal, here is a paper I co-authored with Pleiades
Consulting called "Loosely Coupled Virtual Worlds".

The short version -- The viewer could just perform full logout and login
seamlessly (and potentially behind the scenes) with a client-side
credentials cache.   The various worlds need not communicate or trust
each other at all.

http://www.meerkatviewer.org/whitepaper.pdf
http://www.meerkatviewer.org/whitepaper.odt