2022-11 - Plenary: LFN CTO Vision - The Metaverse and beyond

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60m, @Ranny Haiby

Revisiting the vision from the Porto D&TF and looking forward to what the Metaverse and other trends will mean for our communities

Revisiting the vision from the Porto D&TF and looking forward to what the Metaverse and other trends will mean for our communities

Slides from Porto were recapped

Metaverse

No real consensus on what the definition of the metaverse is beyond a mash-up of the virtual and physical world. Certainly more than just virtual 3d.
LFN communities are the plumbers of the metaverse
much more stringent round trip latency which pushes against the laws of physics with regards to distances.
the need for resilient synchronization are relatively high.

What does all of this mean to our projects?

@Beth Cohen carriers probably won't just the providers of dumb pipes.
@Muddasar Ahmed likely to be many folks that monetize different aspects efficiently -
@Robert Varga CDNs have been around for a long time, as is the problem of an application performing resource selection based on network-based "closeness". An example is Application-Level Traffic Optimization and the RFCs produced at IETF (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/alto/documents/). Attempts with APIs have not gotten as much traction. The API piece may need to be revisited
- @Ranny Haiby CAMARA project may be a path for this
The ability to decouple some of this will be covered in a FD.io session tomorrow