[sldev] Fire wall issues with new Architecture?

[Callum Lerwick]

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 22:24 -0500, Mark Burhop wrote:
> One of the use cases I'm having trouble understanding with the new
> architecture is what the corporate or organzational avatar sees from
> behind a fire wall.  Consider the digram from the wiki below:
>  
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Running_at_Home_and_Offline#The_grid_2008
>  
> If  company XYZ has a region hosted behind its fire wall for research
> or internal use, will the avatar be able to move (teleport) to a
> public region? Or would the corporate user have to log out and log in
> again with a "public" avatar?

Well, this would be a matter of policy.

There's a big discussion lurking here over just what *is* an avatar
anyway? If we abstract it away from an identity (multiple avatars per
identity) and abstract it from an inventory, (one inventory shared among
avatars. Possibly shared among identities.) what is left? Just an
instance of an asset that happens to be of the "avatar" type? What is an
identity? Etc... :)

> It would be better for avatars to be able to move between public and
> private (behind the firewall) space just as most of us do today when
> we access internal and external web pages. However, I imagine
> supporting this could create some problem with where assets are
> stored.

It would be up to the IT department to set up a policy, and poke holes
in the corporate firewall to allow this to happen. If they even want it
to happen.
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