[sldev] Scalable Sim Question

[Lawson English]

Spot wrote:
> Perhaps I am unclear on the goal. I thought the entire point was to 
> create grid interoperability where someone could bounce from grid to 
> grid to grid if they so wished (ala first few chapters of Snowcrash 
> with the 'countries' of Los Angeles).
>
> In order to make something like that remotely viable, access should 
> not be dependent on having a separate account with each grid (IMO). 
> That is a barrier to entry which your average person will not cross. 
> You will get grid segregation on a grand scale, and most of it would 
> be on the top two or three grids. As far as inventory control is 
> concerned, that is a more complicated matter, but it seems could also 
> be managed with higher level agreements between grids.
>
> Much of this stuff really falls under control of the population's 
> expectations. If people are made _aware_ that assets from this grid 
> can/and do exist in these other grids, then they will not have their 
> expectations broken. You have your real issues with the population 
> when the infrastructure allows for the unexpected.
>
> Spot
>

There's probably a hundred hours or so of transcripts of discussions 
about these topics available for review on the wiki. Its not like we 
haven't been debating these topics for the past 11 months or something.


https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/AW_Groupies#Architecture_Working_Group_meetings

Is a pretty good place to start.

> Argent Stonecutter wrote:
>> On 2008-08-12, at 23:10, Spot wrote:
>>> Since we are more or less dealing with virtual 'worlds' here, 
>>> doesn't it make some sense to base trust/authority on how well a 
>>> particular grid is governed?
>>
>> The point I'm getting at is that you shouldn't need to trust a grid 
>> in the first place, because anyone from another grid can just get a 
>> free SL account anyway. Unless SL starts charging for all accounts 
>> all you need to do is maintain a non-volatile local inventory so that 
>> a remote account doesn't transfer anything out of the grid that a 
>> free local account wouldn't.
>>
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