[sldev] [AWG] [META] {EMERGENCY WILL ROBINSON] Jira for meta-grid permissions change

[Kitty]

> The default for this new, emergency system, must be "Creation 
> Grid Only" 
> and all new content and all existing content gets this 
> permission applied automatically. In other words, NOTHING can 
> leave Second Life without the explicit permission of the 
> content creator. NOTHING. The fact that many builds and items 
> might be open permissions and the creator is no longer 
> involved in Second Life doesn't change the legal
> reality: they haven't given permission for their content to 
> leave the SL grid and therefore it must remain in Second Life 
> until they log back into their account and say differently.

There's already a "trust" agreement between LL and IBM, content is already
leaving the SL grid for third-party servers. If your claim of "not legal"
has any basis then that agreement is in desperate need of revising.

More realistically, the ramifications will no doubt have been looked at by
lawyers on both sides and weren't a problem to keep from having the
agreement in place so there should be nothing that stands in the way of
making all content "creation and trusted grids" by default.

If you can't give consumers access to things they bought regardless of
whatever sim they're on, you might as well bury "open grid" fantasies
because there will be no point. Creator rights do matter, but so do consumer
rights, any solution will have to be a compromise between the two - often
opposing - needs because both groups need each other.

Just because assets are currently being transferred to the sim doesn't mean
that's the only way, a lot of content on web pages comes from half a dozen
different servers which the browser fetches independently. The analogy only
goes so far obviously, but there's no reason assets *have* to be sent across
grids, simulate them on their native grid and let the viewer combine it all
together.

The current system was obviously never intended to operate in a shared
environment of non-LL operated sims/grids, don't waste time trying to fit a
square block into a round hole just because you want your shiny new toy
*now* but go back to the drawing board and design something new and solid
from the ground up that meets all the current and forseeable future
requirements. It'll have to happen at some point anyway, it might as well be
now so you can start with a solid foundation to build on.