Attending:

Mike Aratow
Alan Hudson
Don Brutzman

Rita
Dick


Agenda

Conformance Update
   2 announcements
      
X3D Earth
   Nasa WorldWind
   Google Earth
   Microsoft
   Oracle
   Kevin Montgomery
   
who is going to work on physics in 07 and help co-write the symposium paper with COLLADA? Nick has gone out on a limb for all of us.

Web3D 2007
   Need a European presence for marketing / membership recruitment
   
   Keynote speaker for symposium per Nick's request
   
   Possible sponsors for Web3D
   
Showcase
   Jeff Weekly running it?  (MC)  -Invite to next board meeting
      needs help with coordnation and wrangling
   Location?

Siggraph
   Feb 1 BOF
   Tech Talk? / Showcase
      Want a 2 hour public venue
   Rita will look into booth costs
   
New WGs and related 
   Networking Charter
   
      Start a vote on board to charter
      
   Chris's response to comments:
   
   1. The comments do not provide any specific comment on the content of the
   proposal as far as I can see, so I assume the text is ok for forming the
   group and making a start. (I can fix the title - a comment from Alan - and
   remove the TBDs: they were originally for input form Leonard).
   2. There is already a use case. To require an X3D Earth use case is not
   necessary: networking will not be targeted at just x3d earth or any other
   specific domain. I'm not going to do additional use cases to suit everyone:
   they should do that themselves, I've put an excessive amount of time over
   too long a period to be doing any more unless I can get the Consortium
   members to start doing something/helping with it. Ditto for the comment on
   Flash.
   3. The XMLHttpRequest is implementation specific to javascript running in
   the client web browser and the networking proposal is explicitly
   independent of such external programming APIs. That's the main point of the
   overview. The proposal therefore is explicitly not including XMLHttpRequest:
   I gave a comparison of the two forms to highlight this difference: the
   proposal is an alternative to XMLHttpRequest, though it may be used in
   conjunction. The diagram would have helped (did it not come thru for
   anyone?). I can try to make this point in the overview clearer, perhaps.
   4. No idea what "networking relayerization" is about and don't see why the
   working group and its web page should be held up because of it.
   5. Compatibility/interoperability with XML based protocols is another level
   above this proposal and should be considered as a future development of the
   technology/spec, not a requirement for the inception of the WG.


Next Meeting
   Feb 12th