[sldev] AWG - Scope (Future SL Architecture versus Multiworld Interoperability)

[Mike Monkowski]

Jason Giglio wrote:
> Matthew Dowd wrote:
> 
>> Originally, I thought the AWG was attempting to develop a new 
>> architecture for SL focused on better scalability and opening up the 
>> possibility of people running their own SL sims.
> 
> 
> It is.  When Zha talks about interoperability, he's speaking of 
> alternate implementations of the SL protocol inherently.
> 
> Other virtual worlds... unless they want to completely start over using 
> the protocols we make, they are irrelevant.
> 
> The *only* product we are making here is a standardized *protocol*. What 
> we are designing is to virtual worlds as HTTP is to the Web.
> 
> The implementations (such as virtualization) *are* irrelevant.
> 
> -Jason

There is a *lot* more to scaling than just protocols.  I think it is a 
mistake to sideline "implementations (such as virtualization)."  They 
may be irrelevant to the protocol corner of the world, but they are 
vitally important to making something real.  Standards have no grounding 
without implementations.

Mike