Architecture Working Group

   I have gathered my tools and my charts,
   My plans are finished and practical.
   I shall roll up my sleeves — make Second Life over. 

Goal

Discuss, design and implement a scalable and open architecture for the future Second Life Grid.

Create an architecture and set of specifications which will form the basis for:

• The next generation SecondLife Grid
• World Wide Web scale hosting of Virtual World Content
• Multiple inter-operable implementations of the complete architecture (Metaverse creation)
• Allowing Individuals and Enterprises to host content, agents and virtual land

Highlights

• High Level Architecture proposed by Linden Lab (see the starting point)
• Participate by contributing:
  • In the wiki
  • Throught Viewpoint Advocacy Groups (topic oriented focal points)
  • Via SLDEV sldev mailing list and use tags like [ARCH] and [AWG] in the subject line.
• Process (proposal)
• Glossary

See below for many more details

Participating

Membership in this group is open. Start contribution to the work, and you become a member.

• Contribute to the materials and documentation in this wiki --- a lot of material is being drafted and discussed in the AW Groupies section (also, see below).
• Join the sldev mailing list and use tags like [ARCH] and [AWG] in the subject line.
• Meet with others for technical discussions: Zero Linden's office hours, AW Groupies.

Meetings

Formal meetings will likely be held 3-4 times/year and located in Second Life to facilitate broad participation. Meetings will be coordinated on SLDev. Group members are encouraged to self-organize smaller meetings to move forward particular work areas and discuss hot topics as needed.

• Meeting 1
  • September 13th 2007, Meeting 1
  • Workitems for Meeting 1
  • 2007-09-13 Arch WG Minutes
• Chatlog from 2007/09/16 (Gigs, otakup0pe and Tao_T talk about possible forms of regions etc.)
• Transcript and Slides from Tao Takashi's informal meetup on 2007/09/23
• In World Chatlogs
• AW Groupies

See also: Zero Linden's office hour transcripts

Materials

• Project Motivation
• Process (proposal)
• Glossary
• Design Documents
• Use Cases
• Brainstorming
• Scoping
• Viewpoint Advocacy Groups

Architecture Proposals

• High Level Architecture proposed by Linden Lab
• Hyperplanes
• Tedds stand-alone script engine proposal

Individual Reviews and Feedback

• Zha's comments on meeting 1
• AWG: Zha's Desiderata for evaluating the proposed design
• Tree's comments on meeting 1
• Diva Canto's Review
• Mic's Feedback
• Views of the Gareth
• Omei Turnbull's thoughts on asset domains

Discussions

• DRM, IP and permissions (from the mailing list)
• Initial CAPS seed
• AWG initial flows