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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/10/2015 4:05 PM, John Carlson
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      Would love to see more people here, discussions are just starting:
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      <div class="">I’ve posted several things.  I prefer forums to
        email.  My message isn’t so overbearing.</div>
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      <div class="">Leonard, what are the archiving policies of the
        site?  What about long term maintenance and backup?   Are you
        using open software on the site?  Thanks!</div>
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    John,<br>
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    Thanks for starting things off. I have been doing some serious
    architectural thinking and will post some ideas when I can condense
    them into words.<br>
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    Realism.com is my domain. I've had it almost 20 years now (since
    1996). Tools is where I do my development, so (at least I think) it
    is a perfect place for discussions. Backups are done every day,
    maintenance is done by me. I may need to expand on that if there are
    people interested and it becomes a big enough thing. The site is
    powered by Drupal V7. V8 is available in beta, but not ready (nor
    complete) for prime time.<br>
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    I'll look into other support, but since I've started this here and
    like to leave it for a while. I am not opposed to moving the
    discussion to an appropriate platform as needed.<br>
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    Leonard Daly<br>
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      <div class="">If we want to create more of a community, something
        like diaspora might work.  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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        <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://social.realism" class="">http://social.realism</a>.com???</div>
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            <div class="">On Sep 10, 2015, at 4:19 PM, Leonard Daly <<a
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              <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" class=""> For 20
                years, the Web3D Consortium has developed and maintained
                a open, royalty free, ISO ratified and well documented
                standardized markup language for transmitting and
                displaying 3D content on the web called X3D. As 3D
                content creation and use is now fast becoming
                democratized by significant advances in software and
                hardware, the Consortium wants to continue to evolve the
                standard to protect content creators from vendor lock-in
                and high value and archival 3D content from file format
                obsolescence.<br class="">
                <p class="">We would like to know:</p>
                <p class=""> 1: What features and/or functionality are
                  missing from the current standard (<a
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href="http://tools.realism.com/forums/x3d-evolution/what-features-andor-functionality-are-missing-current-standard"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tools.realism.com/forums/x3d-evolution/what-features-andor-functionality-are-missing-current-standard">http://tools.realism.com/forums/x3d-evolution/what-features-andor-functionality-are-missing-current-standard</a></a>)<br
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                   2: Who or what groups you think would best benefit
                  from this standard (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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href="http://tools.realism.com/forums/x3d-evolution/who-or-what-groups-you-think-would-best-benefit-standard">http://tools.realism.com/forums/x3d-evolution/who-or-what-groups-you-think-would-best-benefit-standard</a>)<br
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                <p class="">The general discussion forum is at <a
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                    href="http://tools.realism.com/forums/x3d-evolution"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tools.realism.com/forums/x3d-evolution">http://tools.realism.com/forums/x3d-evolution</a></a><br
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                   * The existing X3D standard (X3D Abstract - ISO/IEC
                  19775-1:2013) <br class="">
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href="http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/Architecture.html">http://www.web3d.org/documents/specifications/19775-1/V3.3/Part01/Architecture.html</a><br
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                     - Examples: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                    href="http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/">http://www.web3d.org/x3d/content/examples/Basic/</a><br
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                <p class="">  * X3DOM - a popular WebGL implementation<br
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                     - <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                    href="http://www.x3dom.org/">www.x3dom.org</a><br
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                     - Examples: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                    href="http://www.x3dom.org/examples/">http://www.x3dom.org/examples/</a><br
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                <p class="">You can freely participate by asking
                  questions, posing use-cases, or providing solutions or
                  examples. All discussion are publicly viewable. Do not
                  post material that is protected (either by license or
                  as proprietary). You can email me privately <a
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                  if you have questions or non-public comments.<br
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                Thank you for taking the time to provide your input so
                we can continue to serve an ever growing 3D web
                community with a free and open alternative to
                proprietary solutions.<br class="">
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                    X3D Co-Chair<br class="">
                    Cloud Consultant<br class="">
                    President, Daly Realism - <i class="">Creating the
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        <font size="+1"><b>Leonard Daly</b></font><br>
        X3D Co-Chair<br>
        Cloud Consultant<br>
        President, Daly Realism - <i>Creating the Future</i>
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