Worlds 1.0 - Short-Term Plan

by 0xd11a019a70986bd607cbc1c1f9ae221c78581f49 (Yemel)

This is a follow-up proposal regarding "Should Decentraland Worlds be integrated with Events and Places?" and "Should Decentraland Worlds be integrated with Places?".

Based on conversations with some LAND owners and Foundation’s core developers, we have come up with a two-fold strategy.

1. [This poll] A short-term plan to implement right away if it gets a general acceptance level.
2. [Second Poll] A long-term plan should go through the three-stage governance process.

Short-term Plan

To increase the adoption and utility of Decentraland Worlds, and to encourage more creators to publish content utilizing the Decentraland platform, an integration between Worlds with Places , Events and the Explorer is proposed.

Description

• Allow discoverability of Worlds deployed to Foundation’s World Content Server only for NAME owners that also hold LAND or an active LAND rental contract.

• The World Content Server will expose a list of “discoverable” worlds and it will be used by other products such as Events , Places and the Explorer .

• Creators will be able to opt out of this functionality at the moment of deploying their world via settings in the scene.json file.

Rationale

Decentraland Foundation team is leading the development of the World Content Server and enabling the discoverability of Worlds is an important milestone to reach. There is some considerable engineering effort required and this is a great timing for the team to do it.

Limiting discoverability to LAND owners and tenants allows Foundation to implement and test the feature while preserving the economics of the LAND market. It also encourages the world owner to build a portal from Genesis City to the World to bring more traffic.

Conclusion

This poll aims to test the community sentiment about enabling the discoverability of Worlds owned by LAND holders and tenants. It will be implemented if the poll receives general support.

There is also an ongoing conversation, about how the long-term support of Worlds should work. Those issues should be discussed in this other proposal and go through the three-stage governance process.

• Yes
• No
• Invalid question/options

This proposal is summarized due to technical limitations. To view it complete and vote on it, visit the DCL DAO Governance dApp