[sldev] [RFC] Object to Object Instant Messaging Proposal

[Strife Onizuka]

The technical reasons why there isn't arbitrary o2o communications:
1. It requires tracking of objects for the entire grid, currently objects
must register/poll for communications (email and xml-rpc) which does not
require this type of tracking.
2. Gray Goo (DDoS0.

On 5/28/07, Erik Anderson <odysseus654 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> LL appears to have some issues with having O2O communication within the
> grid without the assistance of an outside website.  I'm guessing that the
> outside website requirement is there to limit the amount of bandwidth that
> is required to handle requests, otherwise the grid could find that it has
> been DDOS'ed by itself or something.  We have llHTTPRequest that will send
> requests out from the grid to an external website, XML-RPC which will
> receive requests from an external website into the grid, and llEmail which
> will send a message between two objects within 5-120sec of the request.  And
> yes, there has been a block placed to prevent llHTTPRequest from simulating
> an XML-RPC request back into the grid.
>
> On 5/28/07, Chance Unknown <chance at kalacia.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=119570
> >
> > this will work until they implement whatever has been on the way back
> > burner for along long time... you need to be able to host PHP scripts off
> > world...
> >
> > ---
> >
> >
> > On 5/28/07, Tateru Nino <tateru.nino at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Jason Giglio wrote:
> > > > Kamilion wrote:
> > > >> Anyway, I'm posting this here currently because I'd like to get
> > > some
> > > >> comments on this from other residents and the monitoring lindens
> > > (Hi
> > > >> Kelly!) before posting a complete feature request to JIRA.
> > > >
> > > > It's always been suspected that Linden Lab has prevented this sort
> > > of
> > > > functionality for some kind of non-technical reason.
> > > >
> > > > BTW- Why not use the existing IM function?
> > > Linden Lab promised a new object-to-object messaging system last year.
> > > I
> > > think Cory mentioned it at a meeting, just after the task was accepted
> > >
> > > from the feature voting system - perhaps there's even some progress on
> > > it. Only LL knows for sure.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Tateru Nino
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