[sldev] Opening the server source?

[Erik Anderson]

>From what I understand, this kind of "dual connection" has already been in
the works for some time.  I read something somewhere (don't remember where
at the moment) where inventory and other stuff would be moved off onto an
"agent server" that maintained information for the client for the life of
the connection.  This would reduce the impact and instabilities of boundary
crossing, which currently requires the sim to box up all the agent
information and send it to the new sim.

So from my understanding the sim is currently the sole authoritative
communications pathway with the client, but there is some work underway to
split them as you describe.

On 6/29/07, Mike Monkowski <monkowsk at watson.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Adam Frisby wrote:
> > The key here however is that LL wants to be ready to accept outside
> > servers before they enable it. Right now the server is extremely trusted
> > - everything occurs on the server. Money handling, etc is just a few of
> > the things that could be exploited.
>
> That's the point I was trying to make.  It doesn't happen on "the"
> server, it happens on several types of servers: login server,
> userserver, dataserver, simulator, central backbone, agent database,
> central database, search database, map server, and RPC server.
>
> I don't know who gets the message stream from the viewer, but if it is
> the simuator, then just split that functionality out into a message
> server owned by LL.  Let the viewer send two message streams.  Tell the
> sim server only what it needs to know to keep track of agents, objects,
> and scripts.  If the sim needs to communicate with other sims, it can go
> through the message server.  The sim need be only a physics engine.  How
> dangerous can physics be? :-)
>
> > Kelly's email from earlier is really worth looking at for the reasons as
> > to why LL wont be opening the sim any time soon (however I dont doubt it
> > will happen, just probably not in the next 12 months.)
>
> Yeah, I read that, but thought the other side of the discussion needed a
> few more words.
>
> Mike
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