Re: [vwrap] what's wrong with starting small?

ossm. indeed. that is the email i was thinking about.

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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Cristina Videira Lopes
<lopes@ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/vwrap/current/msg00318.html
> If you are talking about *this* email from John, we are on the same page.
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> Meadhbh Hamrick wrote:
>>
>> so we have a recommendation from at least two implementers (myself and
>> john) that we focus on a small subset of an overall virtual world
>> problem domain.
>>
>> it seems to me that diva/christina and morgaine are pushing for a more
>> expansive problem domain.
>>
>> can i ask, what is the issue we have with starting small and then
>> growing the problem domain?
>>
>> i think i remember an IETF "old hand" (it might have even been barry)
>> say that it's a LOT easier to go back to the IAB / IESG and ask to add
>> things to your charter than it is to remove them.
>>
>> i'm also thinking that some of the tension in this group is over the
>> conflicting objectives between the "expansionist" block and the
>> "dimunitivist" block. but it also seems that we're not horribly far
>> off from each other in terms of wire protocol.
>>
>> maybe a solution could be to draft two documents... one a "long term"
>> goal for virtual worlds that describes the "expansionist" objectives
>> and another that is a little more short term and describes the
>> "diminutivist" objective for a small subset of things needed for the
>> long term goals?
>>
>> is the concern with this approach that any near term service (service
>> establishment, event queue, teleport, assets) would need to know about
>> the totality of the virtual world in order to be practical?
>>
>> -cheers
>> -meadhbh
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