MMOX

"MMOX is an effort to collect best practices and develop consensus based standards for virtual world and MMO interoperability. The mmox@ietf.org mailing list is for technical discussions related to this objective and for coordinating administrative details of upcoming meetings." -- IETF MMOX listinfo

This page is intended as a useful container for gathering together links to MMOX resources.

Please expand it with other relevant links that could be helpful. (Don't lose any links. :P)

MMOX mailing list and other communications

Please note that all communications performed under the aegis of an IETF workgroup (this includes IETF email and Jabber) are logged and are permanently visible to the public. They are also considered "IETF Contributions", and as such are subject to the IETF rules on IPR Disclosure. Please read the relevant documents in the IETF Information section below to know what this means.

• IETF MMOX mailing list
• mmox@jabber.ietf.org -- IETF MMOX XMPP/Jabber IM chatroom

IETF Jabber Chat logs

• MMOX workgroup logs directory
• All IETF workgroup log directories

SL In-World Chat logs

• February

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MMOX drafts and working documents

MMOX Workgroup Charter Drafts

• MMOX WG Charter draft #1
• MMOX WG Charter draft #2
• MMOX WG Charter draft #3
• MMOX WG Charter draft #4
• Add further links here as the baton is passed around
• Summary of charter-related threads and posts leading up to draft #4

LLSD Drafts

• Pre-MMOX: (Second Life) LLSD Specification
• Pre-MMOX: (Second Life/Opensim) OGP Draft 3, W.I.P.
• MMOX LLSD draft #0
• Add draft #1-N links here

MMOX Protocol Drafts

Note that the current working name for the MMOX Core Protocol is still OGP, but may change.

• Pre-MMOX: (Second Life/Opensim) OGP Document Links page
• Pre-MMOX: (Second Life/Opensim) OGP Draft 3, W.I.P.

Highlighted contributions

• Introduction, from Chairperson -- purpose and goals
• Introductory words, from Area Director -- IETF perspective
• MMOX Charter, Scope, Activities, from Chairperson -- a visionary synthesis

IETF Information

• Considerations for Having a Successful Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) Session

• IETF Pre-WG Efforts -- MMOX BoF is registered for Timeframe IETF 74 (SF)

• RFC3935 - A Mission Statement for the IETF

• The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force

• Overview of the IETF -- Ties IETF Contributions to RFC 5378 & RFC 3979

• RFC5378 - Rights Contributors Provide to the IETF Trust

• RFC3979 - Intellectual Property Rights in IETF Technology

• RFC3978 - IETF Rights in Contributions

• RFC2418 - IETF Working Group Guidelines and Procedures

• RFC2026 - The Internet Standards Process -- Revision 3

• Guidelines to Authors of Internet-Drafts

Virtual worlds with known/expected interest in interop

• Opensim -- Community VW compatible with Second Life
• Project Darkstar, and worlds based on this infrastructure, eg. Wonderland
• Forterra OLIVE -- commercial VW, contact active in MMOX
• Solipsis -- P2P virtual world, contact active in AW Groupies
• OpenCroquet -- speculative, not currently known to want interop

MMOX Chairs and IETF Contacts

The contact addresses given here are those already made public here.

• Meadhbh S. Hamrick -- MMOX Chair
• David Levine -- MMOX Chair
• Lisa Dussealt -- Area Director
• Chris Newman -- Area Director