[Opensim-dev] OGPX and IETF-ing things

[Christian Scholz]

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


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