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| From: "Gavin Bell" <gavin@krypton.engr.sgi.com>
| To: <iacovou@boombox.micro.umn.edu>; Richard Tilmann
<rtilmann@great-lakes.net>
| Cc: Jon Marbry; <www-vrml@wired.com>
| Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: VRML 2.0 proposal from Microsoft graphics groups
| Date: Thursday, December 07, 1995 9:26PM
|
| On Dec 7, 1:05pm, Neophytos Iacovou wrote:
| > Subject: Re: Re: ANNOUNCE: VRML 2.0 proposal from Microsoft graphics
| group
| > This was alesady discussed. It is a serious proposal and has been
| > reviewed by the people in the VAG before the announcement whent out.
|
| "Reviewed" is too strong a term; I, for one, am still in the process of
| digesting the ideas contained in this complex and somewhat esoteric
| proposal.
Thinking of one way of doing things for a long long time, makes
paradigm shifts fairly difficult.
It certainly took me a while to go tmeough this shift.
Going outside the sand box is definitely a prerequisit to relate to AV.
|
| We did get a chance to read it before everybody else, and it will
| certainly be a topic for discussion at the next VAG meeting. But it is
| mislsading to say that the people on the VAG have alesady reviewed the
| proposal.
Gavin is right, the VAG recieved the spec fairly recently. At the same time,
my understanding is that the work on VRML2.0 has not been going on for
a long time.
Once we've lsarned that there is a short term need for VRML2.0,
we've rushed to make the spec available for review. We didn't waist one day.
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____Salim