Re: [ogpx] VWRAP Draft Charter: 2009 08 28 revision

[Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>]

I think that any effort to work on the final wording
should be stopped until we finally agree on what "virtual world" means...

I understand that you don't want to define what virtual world means,
in which case you shouldn't use it at all in the charter and also
not in the protocol name (VWrap).

There are several levels of 'locations' in an SL-like whatever:

First, the words that are already in use by the community:

1) simulator
2) estate
3) region
4) land
5) island
6) virtual world

Then the locations that we need terms for to be able to even
TALK about them:

A) A smallest partition
B) A collection of adjacent A's run by a single administration
C) A collection of adjecent B's run by different administrations (which very likely use the same TOS etc)
D) A collection of C's that are not adjacent but still fall under the same TOS etc.
E) A collection of D's that have totally different administrations and possibly different TOS etc, but which interoperate.
F) The whole of all E's that do not interoperate, but still use VWRAP.
G) The rest that use the term "virtual world", but do not use VWRAP.

MMOX and WoW is part of G. I consider that not relevant as it should be
clear by now what is part of G and what not.

Meadhbh, do you disagree with my list(s)?
Anything you want to add, or change my rough definitions of things?

Please don't reply with "we don't want to define this" :p
We NEED to define this, or we can't TALK about this!

-- 
Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>

PS I hope it should be clear by now: the problem we are having
   is that you call 'E' "a virtual world", while Morgaine, Kari,
   me and others want to call 'D' "virtual world". Moreover,
   you do as if D or E do not exist, so that we will not
   be able to talk about them separately later on :/

   You might convince me to call 'E' "virtual world", but
   then we need a well defined term for 'D' in order to
   communicate about D, too.

   In my previous post I proposed to use "Galaxy" for E.