Ken Taylor wrote:
Peter Amstutz wrote:
1. Memory footprint
The current s4 design has a lot of per-vobject overhead, leading to a
significant memory footprint. The development version improves on this
a bit, but the honest truth is that the implementation was not written
with memory
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Folks,
We've been up to something over here - thought I would tell you about it
before you heard it on the street.
Media Machines has been developing a multi-user server based on a new
protocol that we intend to put out into the open. We have dubbed it Simple
Wide Area
Remember, the Metaverse needs open protocols. Without them... everything
else is Just a World.
I agree with this, and I'm glad that more and more people are realizing it.
However, though it's necessary, it's not sufficient to create the
metaverse. Some other requirements I would use to evaluate
We learned the really hard way in the early years of VRML to take it slow
when trying to create something intended to scale out the Internet. I won't
quarrel with your requirements but I also am very leary of anything that
reeks of Snowcrash-like thinking or visions. We got burned because that
Some good point Ken, and I think some should find their way into the NWWG
requirements.
I would add that the protocol should support the efficient implementation of
a heartbeat.
This sounds pretty specific but I think the abitily of a system to know that
the server
and clients are responding and
Because when you don't hit the mark, it causes people to throw the baby out
with the bathwater. Visions are ok, but lots of publicity and
preannouncements without the goods takes on the rep of being snake-oil. It
is a very bad strategy to get into a market with the aim of eliminating all
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 17:32:17 -0700, HEBLACK, J wrote:
http://interreality.org/wiki/YiMeiyou
The faq at the above page is missing.
All the links are missing; I let my laranja.org domain expire,
accidentally :-(
I'll be setting up new addresses for all that stuff shortly.
best,
On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:29:35 -0700, Ken Taylor wrote:
Sounds reasonable... What reasons (other than asthetics/symmetry) are there
for properties to be first-class? Will a property object ever have
children?
Two use cases we encountered in the past for putting children in a property:
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