[sldev] [META][AWG]log chat of AWG meeting Friday, Oct 5, 2007

dirk husemann hud at zurich.ibm.com
Mon Oct 8 23:25:16 PDT 2007


Callum Lerwick wrote:
> O[...]
>> suggestion: asset: once created in-world is fixed. change permission,
>> change description, change texture -> new asset. asset includes all
>> properties. that way it can be cached without having to verify with the
>> "originating" domain whether the creator has changed her mind...
>>     
>
> No. Look at files on your disk. Metadata such as filename, its
> permissions, creation dates etc, are not part of the file itself.
> Changing the filename or its permissions does not change the file
> contents. What I've been calling an Asset is analogous to the contents
> of a file. How about if we call it a "static asset data"? This is the
> part that gets mirrored far and wide. An instance of an asset would
> contain a reference to the static asset data and is where editable
> descriptions and permissions live. This part would live in agent
> inventories.
>   
yep, got it! :-) "asset = data + meta data" made the penny drop in my case.

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dr dirk husemann, pervasive computing, ibm zurich research lab
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