Fwd: A live web of worlds

[John Carlson]

So much of the Internet is dead, static, stateless websites waiting on a server to be requested by a client.

Dead, stateless, siloed web:  GitHub, Google Drive, https clients and servers

Live, stateful, shared web: CORBA and Xanadu (?), and multi-client, multi-server X11

How do we do both at the same time?  How do we build a distributed data structure or distributed object model that's fully revisionable and backed up?  How do we make it accessible to everyone?  How do we make it secure?

What are other systems? Andrew? Amoeba? DFS? Intraverse?  Kerberos?

I think the key to this maybe in DOM and JavaScript,  we just have to make them accessible to the deafblind as well, fully live and editable, there's UU object IDs and UU class IDs, and  UU namespace IDs,  UU module IDs UU package IDs, UU repository IDs and mirroring.   There needs to be dirty flags on every object, and a user needs to approve each change and correct bad objects.

Can X3D get there?  I have been experimenting with a REPL JSON editor. If that's reflected in X3D authoring systems, and backed by something like git, I think we have a great way forward.

Object-capability security (Ocaps) leads the way in securing this, I think.  Is anyone considering this in Metaverse Standards Foum or Web3D?

John