IETF Logo Mail Archive

Re: [ogpx] OGPX Charter+Intro ambiguity in Virtual World vs Virtual Worlds

Infinity Linden <infinity@lindenlab.com> Fri, 24 July 2009 14:15 UTC

Return-Path: <infinity@lindenlab.com>
X-Original-To: ogpx@core3.amsl.com
Delivered-To: ogpx@core3.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by core3.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C9528C1CA for <ogpx@core3.amsl.com>; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:15:27 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -1.677
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.677 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[AWL=-0.300, BAYES_00=-2.599, FM_FORGED_GMAIL=0.622, J_CHICKENPOX_75=0.6]
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([64.170.98.32]) by localhost (core3.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Z21zkGZrUVHX for <ogpx@core3.amsl.com>; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:15:26 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from mail-yx0-f203.google.com (mail-yx0-f203.google.com [209.85.210.203]) by core3.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648793A6B49 for <ogpx@ietf.org>; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:15:26 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by yxe41 with SMTP id 41so580623yxe.29 for <ogpx@ietf.org>; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:14:52 -0700 (PDT)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: by 10.100.239.16 with SMTP id m16mr4450699anh.192.1248444525703; Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:08:45 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <227172.66960.qm@web82603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
References: <e0b04bba0907210146o64697050s1f38ab4db838c85c@mail.gmail.com> <b8ef0a220907210834l2ce4da0cle430176f5d939be4@mail.gmail.com> <4A686B0C.9040802@dcrocker.net> <OF09C84013.1DB388B7-ON852575FC.0053B041-852575FC.0055406F@us.ibm.com> <4A688A3F.4070300@bbiw.net> <OFAAD2FD1B.563587B3-ON852575FC.005895E4-852575FC.005FC745@us.ibm.com> <227172.66960.qm@web82603.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:08:45 -0700
Message-ID: <3a880e2c0907240708g7e172455xa3de69e9e6d616a@mail.gmail.com>
From: Infinity Linden <infinity@lindenlab.com>
To: Charles Krinke <cfk@pacbell.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: ogpx@ietf.org, Dave CROCKER <dcrocker@bbiw.net>
Subject: Re: [ogpx] OGPX Charter+Intro ambiguity in Virtual World vs Virtual Worlds
X-BeenThere: ogpx@ietf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9
Precedence: list
List-Id: Virtual Worlds and the Open Grid Protocol <ogpx.ietf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogpx>, <mailto:ogpx-request@ietf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ogpx>
List-Post: <mailto:ogpx@ietf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:ogpx-request@ietf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ogpx>, <mailto:ogpx-request@ietf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:15:27 -0000

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Charles Krinke<cfk@pacbell.net> wrote:
> Dear Zha:
>
> That is my understanding also. As we move forward, I can see that the notion
> of OGP most likely will entail a connection back to the virtual world that
> one teleported via 'interop' from for certain asset & inventory connections.
> After all, a user in OSGrid or ReactionGrid will be unknown to SecondLife
> and the converse is also true.
>
> Whether we call these 'grids' or 'virtual worlds' may not matter very much.
> Personally, I tend to visualize all collections of regions using some sort
> of common User/Agent/Inventory as a 'grid' rather then a 'virtual world',
> but that is a small matter of semantics.

+1. i like the term "grid" because it's a slightly newer term than
"virtual world" and has less baggage.

v2.8.7 | Report a Bug | By Email