Re: [ogpx] Fwd: VWRAP Draft Charter - 2009 09 01

[Meadhbh Siobhan <[e-mail]>]

hmm.. carlo.. while the alien example you give does describe a
"policy" that can be set by a RD, for the purpose of the protocol
definition, that's drifting a bit far afield. when used in the same
sentence as "protocol", i think it's common to mean only those things
which the participant in the protocol can detect in a reasonably
automated way, and are expressed in the protocol itself.

though i suppose, if we really wanted to, we could create the "alien
garment tag" that allows the producer of an attachment or clothing
texture to declare assets as being suitably alien in appearance, then
the RD could check that all assets and garmets on an incoming avatar
bear this tag.

but i'm not seriously recommending we do this; just trying to give an
example of what i mean when i say "policy" in describing a protocol.
we've already had the debate about the meaning of the term "virtual
world," i would like to get consensus that when we say "policy" in
terms of a protocol, we're using it in terms of what a protocol
endpoint could reasonably be assumed to be able to intuit.

-cheers
-meadhbh / infinity