Re: [ogpx] one virtual world, or many?

[Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 03:00:39PM -0700, Meadhbh Siobhan wrote:
> •	The Virtual World exists independent of the participating clients.
> •	Avatars have a single, unique presence in the virtual world.
> •	The virtual world contains persistent objects.
> •	The virtual world may be partitioned.
> •	Presence, state and simulation is managed on authoritative servers.
> •	Version skew between simulation hosts be tolerable.
> •	The protocol to access the state of hosts participating in the
> virtual world simulation uses Representational State Transfer (REST)
> style interaction over HTTP.
> •	A persistent, ubiquitous identity accompanies requests between hosts
> involved in the virtual world simulation.

Since there is no consensus about the meaning of "virtual world",
this list is pretty meaningless.

Imho, you mean to say that

•	Each 'E' exists independent of the participating clients.
•	Avatars have a single, unique presence in a given 'D'.
•	Each 'C' contains persistent objects.
•	Each 'C' may be partitioned.
•	Presence, state and simulation is managed on authoritative servers.
•	Version skew between 'A' hosts be tolerable.
•	The protocol to access the state of hosts participating in
'A' simulation uses Representational State Transfer (REST)
style interaction over HTTP.
•	A persistent, ubiquitous identity accompanies requests between hosts
involved in the 'E' simulation.

Where I defined 'A', 'C', 'D' and 'E' in my previous post.

-- 
Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>