Hi! Toni Alatalo schrieb: > On Jun 3, 2009, at 10:37 PM, Cristina Videira Lopes wrote: > >> Personally, I think this is all premature. IETF-ing the Hypergrid is >> premature for different reasons than IETF-ing OGP is premature. The > > I think that depends on what is meant by IETF-ing. For proposing as a > standard, you are most probably correct. But starting to discuss > something within the IETF doesn't mean there's a ready proposal for a > standard - perhaps just an idea of the need, a set of requirements and > some early implementation. For example a working group can then discuss > based on those.
If Cristina says it's too premature for a standards track then I guess that's right but I also think that putting things up there maybe on a separate mailing list and just discussing ideas/proposals for the protocol there could be useful. There are a lot of people very informed about protocol building and security issues which might be very helpful. It also means that maybe other VW vendors (who produce right now even more proprietary protocols) might be included at least a little bit and it might lead to a better chance at some interoperability in the end (where I agree there is space for different implementations but I would see this more in specific areas, for some areas I still think it makes sense to reuse existing standards such as OpenID, OAuth, OpenSocial and the like). -- Christian -- COM.lounge GmbH http://comlounge.net Hanbrucher Strasse 33, 52064 Aachen Amtsgericht Aachen HRB 15170 Geschäftsführer: Dr. Ben Scheffler, Christian Scholz email: [email protected] fon: +49-241-4007300 fax: +49-241-97900850 personal email: [email protected] personal blog: http://mrtopf.de/blog personal podcasts: http://openweb-podcast.de, http://datawithoutborders.net _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
