[info] [croquet-user] Public Internet?

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Howard Stearns <howard.stearns at qwaq.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 09:41:25 -0600
To: croquet-user at duke.edu
Subject: Re: [croquet-user] Public Internet?
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Reply-To: croquet-user at duke.edu, Howard Stearns <howard.stearns at qwaq.com>

Hi Henry,

Welcome.

Technical answer: Yes, Croquet is compatible with the public  
Internet. Specifically, it works over ordinary TCP Sockets.

Social answer: There is not a Croquet "application" that connects you  
with all other such Croquet "applications", such that you might use  
it in the same way as Second Life, for example. Instead, there is  
open source code on which various groups have developed their own  
applications.  One such group is the Croquet Collaborative, which put  
out a prototype application called the KAT demo last January.  You  
can use it -- AS A PROTOTYPE -- to run your own network of Croquet  
participants. In addition, the Collaborative leaves a KAT connection  
point going with public access.
    http://opencroquet.org/index.php/Croquet_Collaborative
    http://www.wetmachine.com/itf/category/27
    http://www.wetmachine.com/category/28

Technical aside:
  1. Other demos in the Croquet Software Developers Kit (SDK)  
illustrate other things about Croquet. Some of them automatically  
find other Croquet demos that are running on the same LAN. But it  
would be wrong to misconstrue this to mean that Croquet in general is  
limited to LAN-only.
  2. There is a lot of tuning that is appropriate for a given  
application to be practical over the public Internet. Most of the SDK  
demos do not have such tuning. The KAT has only the start of some  
such work.  Qwaq Forums is a commercial application using Croquet  
that is so tuned, and is used regularly over the public Internet.

Disclosure: I work at Qwaq, and am a founder of the non-profit  
Croquet Collaborative.

-Howard

On Nov 4, 2007, at 7:07 PM, Monster Tank wrote:

>Hi my name is Henry Cheung and i am a Boston College Student. I am  
>a part of http://www.immersiveeducation.org/ and i have a question  
>about Croquet.
>I am attending an online class at Boston College and my fellow  
>peers and I was wondering if Croquet is compatible with the "public  
>internet" and if it is then is there any way to connect via the  
>public internet and not a LAN or a WAN.
>Thanks for your time in answering our question and I hope to hear  
>from you soon.
>
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