[sldev] Re: Goals for viewer authentication

[Tateru Nino]

Rob Lanphier wrote:
> On 10/1/07 6:41 PM, Tateru Nino wrote:
>   
>> One of the things about the proposed viewer authentication that I'm hazy
>> on is Linden Lab's actual _goals_ for the new system. Most of what I've
>> seen is assumption of goals, or allusion to goals. It occured to be
>> today, reading through the viewer critique that a lot of the goals seem
>> to be the ones we _assume_ Linden Lab to have for the system.
>>
>> What, exactly is the bulleted list of goals that a change to the
>> authentication system is to meet? I mean, we can criticize the system
>> generally - but we can't necessarily propose one that is more acceptable
>> to Linden Lab unless we're sure of their acceptance criteria, no?
>> Otherwise we're talking in circles hoping to stumble on something that's
>> acceptable by happy accident.
>>   
>>     
>
> After talking to the team that's been working on this, I'm getting a
> better understanding of what the goal is.  Unfortunately, there's only
> so much we can talk about at this point, other than to say that it's
> part of a necessary consolidation of entry points to the system.  The
> main thing this accomplishes is the ability to leverage a number of well
> understood web technologies for login support, as well as
> well-understood back-end systems for managing it. 
>   
Devil=>details. :)

Okay, so there's confidential and/or potentially undecided stuff or
stuff linked to stuff that is perhaps confidential, and that can't be
talked about. There's bound to be a quite a number of resident-friendly
solutions that will be completely incompatible with LL's internal goals,
though. Obviously we don't want to burn a ton of threads on those.

Anything we can get to weed out and head-off unproductive discussion
tracks would be a bonus. Saves LL time. Saves us time. Everyone wins.
Not asking for confidential or privileged info. Just want to get what we
_can_ have, to make sure we're all not wasting our time arguing the
finer points of the completely non-useful.

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Tateru Nino
http://dwellonit.blogspot.com/