[sldev] 3rd party viewer policy post on blogs.secondlife.com

[Mike Dickson]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 13:39 +0000, Lear Cale wrote: 
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:26 AM, Argent Stonecutter
> <secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
> I agree, but I believe there's a solution to this.  LL could provide a
> mechanism for developers to register, so that a test client can
> automatically get a temporary registration.  Trust the people, not the
> software.  Someone who tests using multiple avatars would need to
> register each of those avatars.

That seems pretty awkward.  Think of how many registered versions would
have to be tracked and how you might need to handle revocation lists.
Code signing would seem to be a solution except that it's not binaries
being sent around it's data.  I can see how you could do it with
encryption of the data but that seems to be one of the triggers that
caused the concern in the first place.

Personally I'd like more information from LL on the *intent* of the
proposed change.  Is it to protect content creators, control the user
experience (the horse is out and the gate already open on that one),
etc..  Once the intent is understood it's possible folks on the list
could proactively propose solutions to the "problem."

Mike