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After all the about IBM’s secrecy surrounding the meeting
it organized to set standards for virtual worlds, Emerging Technology and Standards Senior Technical Staff Member Peter Haggar wanted to set the record straight. Haggar was one of the leaders at IBM for the summit and helped organize it from the beginning. That makes him the target for some of the ire over perceived exclusions from the conversation. But that was never the intent. “The meeting was definitely a kick the tires type meeting to see if the idea of interoperability had legs,” Haggar explained. “The invite list, there were companies and organizations that you could say we should have invited. But we didn’t because we couldn’t include everyone. And we didn’t think we could have a productive meeting with 300 people there. We wanted a small meeting with key members and a broad representation of the industry. Now that we’ve had the meeting and are moving forward, we are in the process of creating, probably the best word is an alliance among the industry to start looking at it and figuring out what the best standards will be. That will be open to everyone.” After all the about IBM’s secrecy surrounding the meeting it organized to set standards for virtual worlds, Emerging Technology and Standards Senior Technical Staff Member Peter Haggar wanted to set the record straight. Haggar was one of the leaders at IBM for the summit and helped organize it from the beginning. That makes him the target for some of the ire over perceived exclusions from the conversation. But that was never the intent. “The meeting was definitely a kick the tires type meeting to see if the idea of interoperability had legs,” Haggar explained. “The invite list, there were companies and organizations that you could say we should have invited. But we didn’t because we couldn’t include everyone. And we didn’t think we could have a productive meeting with 300 people there. We wanted a small meeting with key members and a broad representation of the industry. Now that we’ve had the meeting and are moving forward, we are in the process of creating, probably the best word is an alliance among the industry to start looking at it and figuring out what the best standards will be. That will be open to everyone.” More info.
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