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

Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> Mon, 31 August 2009 16:58 UTC

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