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

[David W Levine <[e-mail]>]

> 
> > i think i can speak for John Hurliman and David Lavine when i say, "we
> > are all about incremental enhancement."
> 
> Did you start out being all about it, or did you come to it... 
incrementally?
> 
> 
> d/
> 
> -- 
> 
>    Dave Crocker
>    Brandenburg InternetWorking
>    bbiw.net
> 
> 
The epigenesis of the OGPX work was Linden Lab's desire to re-structure 
their internal architecture to allow a scalable architecture. They 
realized that what they were going to do would give them a chance to 
actually define the interoperability points at the same time. Since Linden 
runs a multi-thousand server deployment, one of the earliest design points 
was the ability to move stepwise from the current legacy model to the next 
generation architecture. OpenSim is structured as a base platform with a 
set of extensions, such that one can create multiple diverse systems from 
the core parts. Factored interfaces, extensability and incremental change 
is pretty deep in the DNA of the work. 

- David W. Levine
~ Zha Ewry (In Second Life)