[sldev] Linden Lab Navigations and Landmark Project

[J Ross Nicoll]

Was just pondering avatar appearance earlier, actually; is this a key  
requirement? I mean... lets say my avatar looks the same on most  
grids, where the grid operators have worked out a trust agreement with  
regard to content,  and if I wander out to smaller grids I'm left with  
only freely copiable parts of my avatar/a cut down avatar/something  
else.

Personally, I tend to think things I own should be stored on my  
computer, or on a better suited host of my choice (much in the same  
way I pay for web hosting), and served off that. So if I arrive at a  
new grid, I go "Hi, I'm Ross from the st-andrews.ac.uk domain", it  
does a DNS record lookup, finds the content server from SRV records,  
possibly checks credentials (signed X509 certificates?), grabs "me"  
from the St Andrews server, and I'm then "there"...

On 22 Apr 2008, at 15:35, Dale Mahalko wrote:

> How can you have a consistent avatar appearance across a distributed
> system with no ultimate central authority to store your data? Would
> the lack of a global inventory and permissions system be a detriment
> to the use of a distributed virtual environment? Will distributed
> servers be willing to allow uploading of your avatar from your
> untrusted client? And if you're traveling, are you required to drag
> that personal client data around with you to use the distributed
> environment effectively, vs just sitting down anywhere and having it
> already made available from a central inventory authorty?
>
> This is still all so new that there is no way to answer these
> questions yet. We're going to have to wait for Croquet to fully go
> live across the planet, to find out if a distributed virtual
> environment can work.
>
> -Scalar Tardis / Dale Mahalko
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