[sldev] Linden Lab Navigations and Landmark Project

[Anders Arnholm]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 09:35:49AM -0500, 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?

What is needed for this is a standard shared distributed system, with
something like a global unified way of accessing the information, much
lite the system we today have for websites, There is no single
centralized inventory authority for websites. I don't see the need for it
for avatars. The area that is troublesome is the areas of economics.
distributed information sharing isn't a technical problem it's a
problem of economics. 


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