Architecture Working Group

About

AWG's mission is to develop the protocols that will open up the Second Life Grid from something operated solely by Linden Lab to where others can run parts of the grid.

• Basic info here.
• Learn more about scope, timeframe, getting started, process and best practices in About AWG.

Meetings

AWG 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.

• AWG Meeting 2: Scheduled for 18 March 2008, 8am-noon Pacific Daylight Time. See invitation posted to sldev for details and instructions for RSVP-ing.
• AWG Meeting 1: Agenda, transcript, work items, participant responses and other resources.

Zero's Office Hours

Engineering Director Zero Linden hosts technical discussions about Second Life Grid development at his office hours 2x/week. Date, time, location and transcripts available at User:Zero Linden.

NB: Task-based work groups are encouraged to self-organize community meetings to move forward particular work areas and discuss hot topics as needed. See Resources below.

Documents and Resources

Design Documents

The current state of the group's design:

• Second Life Grid: Description, motivation and goals.
  • Architectural Principles
• Structural Design: Overview of structure, description of agent and region domains, etc.
  • Agent Domain
  • Region Domain
• Second Life Grid Protocols
  • Foundation Protocols
  • Login Protocol
  • Teleport Protocol
• Second Life Grid Glossary

Resources

• AWG Use Cases contributed by work group members.

Related efforts, groups and work:

• AWG Implementations: Projects working to achieve interoperability with the project
• The Incubator: A place for new ideas and concepts
• AW Groupies: The people that make up the AWG
• Viewpoint Advocacy Groups: A set of groups developing ideas around particular issues