[sldev] [AWG] Comments on SLGOGP Draft 1

[Dahlia Trimble]

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Ben Francis <lists at hippygeek.co.uk> wrote:

(edited for the sake of brevity and context)

>
> I can not find a clear definition of the scope of the AWG specification.
> The current standardisation approach seems very bottom-up, focusing on
> matching standards to features that are known to exist in Second Life. I
> would be interested to see a little more top-down work to more precisely
> define the scope of exactly what is being standardised and how this fits
> into the wider world of Internet standards. For example, I personally feel
> that although instant messaging and the concept of currency are inevitably
> used in online virtual worlds, they are not a required part of the core
> specification. Currency and instant messaging in a 3D world should simply be
> a 3D front end to existing systems (in the same way that meebo.com is a
> front end to a jabber service, the web browser does not need to support
> XMPP).


I've raised this issue a few times in the past and the response has always
been along the lines of "We want to understand and document the current
protocols before we try to design anything new". It also appears that the
AWG is starting to deviate from this initial documentation strategy but most
of the players are coming from the perspective of users, engineers, or open
source contributors of Second Life and similar implementations (Opensim), so
it makes sense that the current proposals will have a lot of bias towards
the Second LIfe protocol implementation. If you see too many implementation
specific details in the current documents, I know some of us will be
interested in hearing what alternatives you have in mind.
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