Many of you are hard at work on VRML sites. For some of you, your primary
"face" on the Web will be through VRML. We should, by convention, extend
the DNS naming space to include VRML sites, the same way that DNS name space
was extended to include WWW (that is, HTML) sites.
For this reason, I propose using "vrml" as the prefix for a site which
delivers MIME type x-world/x-vrml.
For example, http://vrml.vrml.org/ - which will be up before very long -
will return a VRML document, not an HTML document. Or (as an example),
Virtual Vegas could use vrml.virtualvegas.com as the VRML interface. It's
entirely complementary with the www.foo.org convention used within the Web,
and provides important human-context information. I can - in many
situations - look at a URL and immediately know if it'll return HTML or VRML.
(Yes, vrml.wired.com is a notable exception to this rule - we'll remedy that.)
Mark Pesce
VRML List Moderator