[humanmarkup] Notes on HM.applications and Human PhysicalCharacteristics Description ML

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Hi Everyone,

I wanted to add a few notes on the latest version of HM.applications. 
Because there is a small mountain of work to be done in the Human 
Physical Characteristics Description Subcommittee, I did not 
elaborate on applications that would necessarily involve this subset 
of HumanMarkup. There are two main areas where this sublanguage will 
be involved. One is Virtual Reality and the other is 
Profiling/Personal Information.

As with Artificial Intelligence/Virtual Reality, which I will update 
once again when the internet infrastructure allows and I am back in 
my home office this evening, Human Physical Characteristics 
Description will eventually have its own set of documents which will 
elaborate as is necessary upon all aspects of these applications 
areas, their particular requirements and usefulness.

I will be working on Human Physical Characteristics Description 
starting tomorrow, so HM.applications will be updated in the not too 
distant future with the more broad applications areas that stem from 
this sublanguage. Most of these applications will be specific to 3D 
representation of humans, due to my own interest and independent 
developments in the Web 3D Consortium involving the last update of 
VRML97, the current ISO specification, and X3D, the next ISO 
specification, which includes the Humanoid Animation Specification 
2001-2002 which is in the later stages of development now. I mention 
this for those of you who are also interested in this field because 
there is a large body of information available and I will include a 
comprehensive, but not exhaustive listing of it with urls for 
references. I will also be cross-referencing some identity-related 
Profiling information related to Public Safety, Emergency Services, 
and (Personal) Medical Information.

In practical terms, this may not come about until after the first of 
the year, but some less comprehensive model of the applications areas 
will probably be developed sooner in order to include it in the 
materials I want to have available for the Jan. Web Services 
Component Model TC meetings.

There are a lot of bedrock practical applications I think we should 
develop first because they represent some valuable low-hanging fruit 
that can be used to our advantage in recruiting more support and 
perhaps even some corporate sponsorship.

Ciao,
Rex
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