ABSTRACT

On June 21, 2022, the Metaverse Standards Forum (or ‘Forum') was announced with 35 founding members, including Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Sony Interactive Entertainment, Cesium, the Web3D Consortium, and the Web 3d Consortium. The Forum, a unique coordinating structure designed to develop agreement on fundamental technical, interoperability protocols for the metaverse, may provide the technical foundation for later established open (and inclusive) standards (from emergent dominant designs) in relevant technology domain standards development organizations. If implemented with a diverse array of metaverse relevant stakeholders, this exercise in pluralistic inclusion will allow for a socially and ethically responsible consensus to be embedded in the foundational outcomes, i.e., protocols, developed by the Forum. Moreover, it will have the key benefit of a ‘legitimacy’ that the industry will be able to utilize in the social and public policy arenas moving forward with formal standards-setting, and eventual commercial implementation, of this potentially revolutionary, disruptive technology.

摘要

2022年6月21日，元界标准论坛（或“论坛”）宣布拥有 35 个创始成员，包括 Meta、Microsoft、NVIDIA、Sony Interactive Entertainment、Cesium、Web3D Consortium 和 Web 3d Consortium。该论坛是一个独特的协调结构，旨在就虚拟宇宙的基本技术、互操作性协议达成一致，可以为相关技术领域标准开发组织中后来建立的开放（和包容性）标准（来自新兴的主导设计）提供技术基础。如果与各种元宇宙相关利益相关者一起实施，这种多元化包容性的做法将允许在论坛制定的基本成果（即协议）中嵌入对社会和道德负责的共识。而且，