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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Chris Thorne
[mailto:dragonmagi@gmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, May 02, 2010 8:35 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Christoph Valentin<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Russ Kinter;
x3d-public@web3d.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [X3D-Public]
multiuser mode (newbie question)</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>There appeared to be little will among the Browser vendors to
collectively agree on and work on a standardised sensor node and protocol. It
may also be that my expectations for real progress to an agreed standard in a 2
year time frame was unrealistic. Anyway, status quo seems a little better but
nowhere near [my] original target, and I have moved on.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;
mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>[Russ Kinter] But at the end of the day what remains
of the VRML/X3D community now has an open-source Node standard that really isn’t
open-source. <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;
mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Do you really believe that the two biggest and
strongest players BSContact and Octaga with their own protocols are going play
nice and help establish one protocol in the future?<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;
mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>What possible motivation would they have for doing
so? <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;
mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Maybe it is a way to force customers who use their
MU servers to buy the new version, because the latest versions of the clients won’t
handle the old protocol? <o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:
normal'><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;
mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Now that’s a sure way to gain and keep
brand/format loyalty.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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12.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal;font-style:italic;
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