[sldev] Where we are headed in IPC development

[Phoenix]

Though the movement in the back-end and web services front-end is not  
as visible or potentially as interesting to the current subscribers  
of this list, we have been diligently working on making inter-process  
communication work more reliably, and robustly.

We have begun development on a new model for handling processes like  
giving L$, purchasing object inventory, and transferring land. The  
first basic building block is how we plan to communicate this  
information when several different hosts have to agree to the final  
state, which I present now in a new proposal we have been calling  
Certified HTTP:

https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Reliable_Message_Delivery_Over_HTTP

Why I thought I would present this here is that we are planning on  
making our implementation for chttp open source pretty much as soon  
as we can. It doesn't work yet and we have to clear a few hurdles  
internally before it can be released, but I wanted to give interested  
parties a preview of what we're doing.

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