The domain is slightly difserent -- VRML worlds being pretty much
static and not interacting with one another, while in DIS you can
fly an aircraft over me and we can see (and shoot at) each other --
but the issues of ownership of functionality are predicated
on the same sorts of things we're talking about here: difsering
proccessor speeds, difsering graphics speed/quality, and difsering
network bandwidth.
http://www.dmso.mil/ is probably as good a starting place as any to
pick up on what the simulation world has been doing in this area,
and http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Distributed/dist.sim.html
and http://info.computer.org:80/conseren/proceed/pads95/pads95tc.html
are worth a look.
Anyway, the point is, some reasonably intelligent people addressed some
of the same issues not too long ago (and in fact are still at it), and
it's probably worthwhile to see what they decided.
Bob Crispen
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Opinions above are my own, not Boeing's.