Thanks in advance
Philipp
On Thu, 11 May 1995, Brian Behlendorf wrote:
> On Thu, 11 May 1995, steve wrote:
> > > Brian Behlendorf ([email protected]) has made dxf converters available on
> > > his SGI machines at organic. Basically you ftp files to organic.com,
> > > scripts do the magic then make the new files available via the Web. Pretty
> > > darn spif!
> >
> > Question :
> >
> > Does this converter generate VRML or Inventor?
>
> It runs "DxfToIv" and "IvToVRML" on the files - those are programs
> supplied by SGI, and without source code I can't verify that they
> generate nothing but valid VRML of course.
>
> > I have noticed a
> > LARGE number of so-called VRML files referenced from the VRML
> > repository web pages are in fact Inventor files, and do NOT conform
> > to the VRML spec.
>
> Conformance is essential this early in the game. Looks like there is a
> *strong* need for a "VRMLlint" - any takers?
>
> > Is this why the InventorMentor is being summarised in HTML form - is
> > the plan to quietly change the URL link from the original VRML spec to
> > this summary document?
>
> I'm as much a conspiracy theorist as the next guy (single gun theory my
> ass! :) but I don't think we have to worry about SGI co-opting the
> language development process, there's simply too much momentum from other
> sides. Just wait until TCC's browser comes out :)
>
> Obviously the way to ensure that one company doesn't railroad the process
> will be to make the 1.0 specification an IETF RFC. The next IETF meeting is
> in Stockholm, and not even I have an expense account that will let me travel
> there, but I'll be at the Dallas one in December.
>
> Before then, though, we can start whipping the spec into RFC language.
> I'll see if I can get Roy Fielding to give me lessons in this :)
>
> Brian
>
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