Re: [ogpx] Definitions of terms to be used in my (our?) communication

Meadhbh Siobhan <meadhbh.siobhan@gmail.com> Mon, 31 August 2009 18:10 UTC

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From: Meadhbh Siobhan <meadhbh.siobhan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [ogpx] Definitions of terms to be used in my (our?) communication
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i would go further and say that the discussion of adjacency is
important, but not required for the charter.

we should be able to define the protocol in such a way that adjacency
or non-adjacency are covered by the description of the protocol, and
not special cases that need to be called out in the charter.

-cheers
-meadhbh / infinity

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Kari Lippert<kari.lippert@gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally I would drop the use of "LAND" and  "ADJACENT REGIONS" but
> I think these terms, as defined here are the right set based on the
> lengthy conversations I started yesterday morning. Using these terms
> it should now be rather trivial to restate the Charter in a way that
> captures the essence of the effort's intent.
>
> Kari
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Carlo Wood<carlo@alinoe.com> wrote:
>> A) A smallest partition
>>
>>  REGION
>>
>> B) A collection of adjacent regions run by a single administration
>>
>>  ISLAND or ADJACENT REGIONS
>>
>> C) A collection of adjacent regions's run by different administrations
>>   (which very likely use the same TOS etc)
>>
>>  LAND, or CONTINENT when larger.
>>
>> D) A collection of continent's that are not adjacent but still fall
>>   under the same TOS, likely use the same inter-world protocols
>>   and organisation-specific extensions etc (likely, they will
>>   have their own website and their own Abuse Report team etc).
>>
>>  VIRTUAL WORLD
>>
>> E) A collection of Virtual World's that have totally different
>>   administrations and possibly different TOS etc, but which
>>   interoperate (ie, you can pass on a Landmark of one VW to
>>   a person you meet in another VW).
>>
>>  GALAXY
>>
>> F) The whole of all Galaxies that do not interoperate, but still use VWRAP.
>>
>>  VWRAP UNIVERSE
>>
>> G) The rest that use the term "virtual world", but do not use VWRAP.
>>
>>  MMOX UNIVERSE
>>
>>
>> Please state if
>> * you have problem with me going to use these terms consistently in my posts
>> * you will use these terms with the same meaning
>> * you wish to give these terms a different meaning
>>
>> I understand there is also something called "REGION DOMAIN", but
>> I have no idea which of the above that would be as it's not my
>> term and it was never discussed.
>>
>> --
>> Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>
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