<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 5, 2010, at 10:54 PM, Paul Aslin wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>ps: An opensource MU X3D server just isn't a viable idea, it would never attract enough interest from programmers or other developers.<br>Lots of complex and time consuming code is needed, for avatars/gestures, storage, shared events, editing and admin. I can't see the consortium or other groups paying key developers for what is needed to make anything half decent.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Ah, I was mostly talking about what clients are doing. Sorry for the confusion. I wasn't talking about a server, I was talking about infrastructure required to do CRUD on a scenegraph anywhere on the net.(whether it's peer to peer or client server doesn't matter--I'm not concerned with server implementations). Ids are useful for global identity, when cooperating servers share clients. I'm not talking about personal identity, I'm talking about node identity.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div></body></html>