OGPX -- the Open Grid Protocol BOF -- met on Tuesday afternoon, 28 July
2009, in room 300 of the Stockholm convention center.

This BOF session was a follow-on to the MMOX BOF at IETF 74.  That one
explored topics and interest in standardizing virtual-world protocols,
and its result was clear direction to narrow the focus to something
manageable -- which led to this.  OGP is a specific new protocol,
proposed by Linden Research, that will bite off just a small piece of
the cake by allowing defined communication between some types of virtual
worlds -- essentially, those that implement this protocol.

After an introduction to the concept of OGP -- which was itself
interrupted by a great deal of discussion and clarification (much of it
among Meadhbh Hamrick, Joshua Bell, Dave Crocker, Larry Masinter, and
David Levine) -- the main goal was to bash out the charter.  Apart from
some obvious edits that will be needed, like listing explicitly the
drafts that will be used as starting points for the work, a firmer and
clearer list of deliverables, and so on, a few significant issues arose:

- Several participants thought that the terminology was unclear to those
who have not already been working on it.  The charter should try to fix
that to a reasonable extent.

- Several participants were confused by the reference to "grid",
expecting to see something related to what's normally called "grid
computing".  A new name will be chosen.

- While "the protocol allows virtual words to interoperate" is a good,
broad statement, several participants argued for more specificity.  The
charter should be clear about what, exactly, interoperates, and what
doesn't.

The result of this BOF session was a strong consensus to do this work on
the IETF, and what seemed to be a sufficient number of people actually
interested in working on it (writing and reviewing documents) to make a
go of a working group.  Joshua Bell quickly posted a "charter issues"
list to the ogpx mailing list after the session, and the list is being
discussed.  Their goal is to have the charter updated, with consensus
behind it, within the next weeks.