[sldev] Puppettering Branch

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Sat Jun 7 16:47:13 PDT 2008


Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 2008-06-06, at 13:53, Lawson English wrote:
>> Sure, not for most purposes, but there could be use-cases where P2P 
>> was useful, hence the long-standing proposal that the protocol 
>> support informing the viewer that P2P is available in a given 
>> sim/grid and *how* to establish contact with other participating 
>> viewers.
>
> One thing to keep in mind: there's not that many viewers in a sim anyway.
>
> We need an inter-viewer "data bus" for low volume data sharing between 
> viewers in range, that's mediated through the sim.
>
> I think puppeteering info is small enough to count as "low volume".

With reverse http, the normal data requests via the GetEvent CAP should 
be plenty fast for "low volume." The server will simply POST each new 
event as it gets it to the veiwer's faux-POST/GET server.
>
> For higher volume data transfer, let the viewers share P2P contact 
> information through this bus, subject to user request and approval.
>
> _
Doable, I'm sure, but as Felix points out, opting out of it will cripple 
functionality in a given region/sim/grid and opting in, would provide 
some loss of privacy.



Lawson




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