Finally Linden Lab produced an interesting document: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-lentczner-ogp-base-00.txt
I think capabilities are the right concept here, and I'm pleased to see them taking center stage in that document. In particular the hint at inventory-related capabilities, which will allow secure inventory access. I'm not sure I buy into some of the details, but the basic combination HTTP+REST+Capabilities --> +1. The Event Queue...well... It sucks. I think we need to look at alternatives for posting things to the client. I can't believe there aren't any; I think there are, but maybe they all come down to this, event queues on the server-side, whatever their form. If there are no better alternatives, then we need at least to rethink what the EQ is all about. If the EQ CAP is not given to the regions, but stays within the user's home system, that might work. Also, if there would be several different *types* of Event Queues that might work well too; so for example, we might give the social-net-related EQ CAP (groups, IM, etc) to the social net component without compromising agent transfers. The more I think about this, the more I'm convinced that regions have no business in agent transfer activities, other than negotiating the capabilities when agents come. I really like that document, I must say, but it's strength is also its weakness. It's just about the basic levels. It says nothing about how those things are driven higher up. Crista _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev