[x3d-public] X3D Working Group Agenda for 2015-07-29 Meeting

[Leonard Daly]

Our next meeting is on Wednesday, 29 July 2015 at 8:00 AM PDT (GMT-0700).

ALL members of the Web3D Consortium Community (Consortium members + 
public) are invited to attend. We use the standard Web3D Conference 
phone number. The information is available to Web3D members at 
http://www.web3d.org/member/teleconference-information. If you are not a 
member, please contact me for details.

This is the draft agenda. If you have any additional topics or details 
to add to existing topics, please email me.

Focus:*X3D Futures for SIGGRAPH*

Regular Members Known Missing: No one

1.Introductions (All)

2.Spec Status (Dick)

2.1.Diagram showing spec document relationships:

2.1.1.Chart with specification relationships
http://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dSpecificationRelationships.png
http://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dSpecificationRelationships.pdf

2.2.Editor’s Meeting Report on 19777-1 (ECMAScript Language Binding)

3.Schedule through the September

3.1.Topics (tentative)

3.1.1.5 August 2015 – SIGGRAPH Planning

3.1.2.11 August 2015, 3:30pm Room 504 (LACC)

3.1.3.19 August 2015 – SIGGRAPH Review, SC-24 preparation

3.1.4.26 August 2015 – TBD (SC-24 meeting)

3.1.5.2 September 2015 – X3D Futures (V3.4, V4.x, or any topic related 
to future specifications)

3.1.6.9 September 2015 – TBD

3.1.7.16 September 2015 – TBD

3.1.8.23 September 2015 – TBD

3.1.9.30 September 2015 – TBD

4.X3D Futures

4.1.SIGGRAPH in 3- weeks

4.2.SRC (binary geometry) standard

4.3.Major announcement on X3D V4

4.4.BOF Topics

4.5.Other topics

5.Press Release (Anita)

6.SRC (Leonard)

6.1.Document in progress at http://realism.com/x3d-tools/Specifications/SRC

6.2.Section 5 starts description of format.

6.3.Some parts appear not to be defined in the paper: 
http://x3dom.org/src/files/Web3d2014_SRC.pdf

6.4.Meet with Khronos during SIGGRAPH (by Tuesday noon)

7.X3D V 4

7.1.A number of significant compatibility issues between X3D and X3DOM

7.2.Propose this be a major discussion during X3D BOF

7.3.High-level points of agreement (list to be modified as needed)

7.3.1.Direct HTML support (a la X3DOM)

7.3.2.New profile

7.3.3.Immersive-level experience

7.3.4.DRAFT specification soon (perhaps this year)

7.4.High-level points of discussion

7.4.1.Profile size / node support

7.4.2.Delivery date

7.5.Pages at URLs below highlight differences between X3D and X3DOM

7.5.1.http://realism.com/x3d-tools/Specifications/comparison.php

7.5.2.www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dNodeInventoryComparison.xlsx 
<http://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dNodeInventoryComparison.xlsx>

7.5.3.www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dNodeInventoryComparison.pdf 
<http://www.web3d.org/specifications/X3dNodeInventoryComparison.pdf>

7.5.4.First URL shows node-level differences between potential profiles

7.5.5..2 & .3 show implementation status

7.6.Need to determine which nodes (or classes of nodes) are to be 
present in V4

7.6.1.Requirements

7.6.1.1.X3D as a whole must support everything in X3D V3.3, except for 
nodes or components that are deprecated

7.6.1.2.End result must be implementable and have two implementations

7.6.1.3.May add features and./or profiles that are needed, documented, 
and implemented

7.6.2.A new ‘HTML’ profile may overlap with existing profiles and 
include nodes and./or fields not in any existing profile.

7.6.3.My causes for concern (not necessarily complete)

7.6.3.1.Script node name conflict

7.6.3.2.DOM Namespaces (includes need for IMPORT/EXPORT)

7.6.3.3.DOM/X3D interaction not using the SAI

7.6.3.4.PROTO and EXTERNPROTO

7.6.3.5.Miscellaneous fields (e.g., url, render)

7.6.3.6.Miscellaneous STATEMENTS (e.g., UNITS)

7.6.3.7.Geometry (Mesh, Extrusion, ElevationGrid, SRC)

7.6.3.8.Appearance (Shaders)

7.6.3.9.Spec-compliant implementations

7.6.4.How to go about creating an HTML profile that can be documented 
and implemented by December?

8.BoF Topics

8.1.HTML Profile discussion

8.2.Unity exporter

9.Other topics (from 4.5)


-- 
*Leonard Daly*
X3D Co-Chair
Cloud Consultant
President, Daly Realism - /Creating the Future/
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