FAQ

What is syntronik.de?

syntronik.de is a so-called Agent Domain which is the part in the Open Grid Protocol which holds user accounts, profile information, manages group memberships, your friends and so on. Think of it as the social networking part of an open metaverse.

There is another component involved in this protocol, the Region Domain, which is the actual 3D environment. Theoretically you can connect with an agent from any Agent Domain to a region on any Region Domain.

What is the Open Grid Protocol?

The Open Grid Protocol aims to become a protocol for a decentralized, open and global metaverse. It is defined by the Architecture Working Group and right now in it's early stages. The goal is to define a protocol which can be standardized.

It is pretty much based on the Second Life protocol but will be extended and cleaned up where necessary to meet the goal of having a decentral network of virtual worlds.

What is the Architecture Working Group?

The Architecture Working Group was founded by Linden Lab in September 2007. It is an open group in which everybody can participate and the goal of it is to discuss and define the Open Grid Protocol.

What can be done with this Agent Domain and the state of the Open Grid Protocol today?

Right now the functionality of an Agent Domain is rather limited. What it can do is mostly authenticating the agent and transfering the name of that agent to the region you want to connect to. It does that while doing the handshake process with the region. As the Open Grid Protocol evolves though we will add more and more features.

Teleporting is also not supported yet but will be added very soon.

Who created this?

The syntronik.de Agent Domain was programmed by Christian Scholz of COM.lounge. It is based on work done by the pyOGP group (which he is also part of) and of course on the hard work of the Architecture Working Group and especially Linden Lab which went into defining the current state of the Open Grid Protocol.