[sldev] Re: Landmarks and Navigation Update 2008-05-29

[Sarah Hutchinson]

Hi Cenji,

I'll make sure our technical team is aware of this. I'm not as familiar with
how the Viewer is used for other grids. I'll take a look at VWR-7531 right
now and the sites you referenced.

Thanks,
Kippie



On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Cenji Neutra <cenji.neutra at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the good overview Sarah.
> Just wanted to chime in to mention that the SL client is increasingly
> being used to login to 3rd-party grids in addition to SL - a trend
> that will continue to gain momentum, especially with work underway to
> make user selection of which 'grid' to connect to part of the UI (see
> VWR-7531 for example).
>
> While currently an avatar's identity and inventory (i.e. landmarks)
> and the grid they're logged into are tied together, in the new
> Architecture LL & the AWG is proposing, they are not (see
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/AWG).  So it will be possible in
> future for an avatar (belonging to a particular 'agent domain') to
> login to a number of independent 'grids' (e.g. region domains).
>
> That obviously has implications for landmarks, since the landmark
> information would need to be associated with the region domain in
> which it was created.  For example, if I created a landmark in SL to a
> region named "Island1" and then quit and reconnected to a different
> agent domain - say osgrid.org or centralgrid.com - *with my SL avatar
> and inventory* (which isn't yet technically possible, but will be),
> then when I select that landmark and click 'teleport' I would expect
> the SL client to know it isn't a location in the grid I'm currently in
> (even if that grid also has a region named "Island1".).  Perhaps it
> should display an error, or maybe even re-connect me to SL to TP
> there.
>
> Just wanted this to be 'on your radar' so perhaps you can build-in
> appropriate 'grid identifiers' into your data design which will aid
> the transition to the new agent/region domain architecture in the
> future.
> Regards.
> -Cenji.
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