RE: VRML & USENET * What is VRML?

Jan Hardenbergh ([email protected])
Tue, 18 Apr 95 15:32:00 E

From: [email protected] (Mark D. Pesce)
> VRML is a networking technology, and is integral to the web, not to
computer
> graphics. It was created by the web commmunity for the web community. I
> believe that the right place in the USENET hierarchy is
> comp.infosystems.www.vrml - thus, as we add more web-based features, and
> more non-graphics features (remember, this is not a graphics problem but a
> networking problem) we won't be seen as "hijacking" a newsgroup. And,
we're
> much more likely to benefit from the sage advise of people who have strong
> networking chops; something we'll need.

Can't we use a URN for the group now and comeback in a year and see where
it really goes? :-)

Will the coming Cyberspace generation, navigation, exploitation & demolition
be done through a single all incompassing language? If so, then
comp.lang.vrml or comp.infosystems.steriods.vrml are the right
way to go.

The alternative, is that VRML grows to have some behaviors, but does not
become the distributed object action broadcast standard. VRML stays as
a rich graphics language that is the graphics part of "the matrix." In that
case,
c.g.vrml is more appropriate.

Can we postpone the newsgroup until we set the architectural direction for
VRML 2.0?

-Jan