My efforts are for *all* of the VNC projects. It's somewhere for all projects to go, and to be able to leverage the great stuff many of them have done (scaling, better encoders, etc) and make it available to all, whilst documenting and normalizing the protocol, and getting the intractable security problems fixed, whilst not throwing away code that works today, and works well. And then add the things that many users have asked for, like local printing, sound, file transfers, etc.
Essence du VNC: * portability * lightweight * thick server heavy, thin client * interoperability (although with fragmentation, this is starting to be a problem) Although I have a derivative on sourceforge called "SecureVNC", think of this as proto-"VNC 4.0". I am not interested long term in being a VNC author / maintainer - my focus has always been security. Andrew -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Michael Ossmann Sent: Tuesday, 15 January 2002 12:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Lets bundle forces I propose that we either start a new project, get behind TightVNC, or get behind Andrew's project. Of all the open projects, Const's TightVNC is the closest to being what we would like to see right now, but Andrew's project is the closest to where we would like to be in the future. I would very much like to see the creation of a mailing list devoted to the RFB protocol that is separate from any of the software mailing lists. Discussion and eventual standardization of a protocol specification will be essential to success of a new project, and Andrew's work is a great place to start. It might be a good idea to choose a new name and announce the project and goals. How about OpenVNC? Not that the original VNC code isn't open, but our focus will be on having a very open and active development process. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
