It looks like the problem domain is taking form, nice Diva. Once comment I had is, you wrote:
Regions hold COPIES of the assets needed to render whatever is currently in world. Normally, this will be "by value", e.g. the sim will have a full and valid copy of the data and be able to supply everything needed to render its content independent of any outside servers. If we move more towards a web model then I see most assets setting on websites like we do with web pages. People pull web pages ever day and let people get access to the pictures and content. And some websites require authentication to get to pages. So what I wanted to share is that if we can move to a web site model it really helps with scalability and takes a load of the simulator to just move images. Seems these images should be retrieved from the source and the person hosting them should be responsibly for the bandwidth and cost of hosting these images. Sure someone may turn off their site and we loose access to these images but we live with that now on the web. Websites that take their content seriously will not have that happen. Except for baked images or things that have to be uploaded by the client and cached on the simulator for a period I like the idea of minimizing the involvement of assets on the simulator. I guess to support SL client functionality there may need to support both models. Kevin Tweedy IRC: Mystical -----Original Message----- From: opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-boun...@lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Diva Canto Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 8:03 PM To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] The essence of "grid" http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Virtual_World_Model No pictures yet, so it's only for the brave. Not sure how well that "Discussion" tab works, but we could move this conversation there, if there are still issues left to discuss. Christian Scholz wrote: > Hi! > > Diva Canto schrieb: >> OK, I think I'm coming close to having the sharp definitions that I >> think are necessary. They're slight variations of Melanie's, because >> Melanie's are still coercing OSGrid-like grids to become something >> that they aren't. >> >> - "Simulator trust domain": a set of simulators that trust each other, >> operated by one single authority >> >> - "Grid": a set of simulators that share resources. Resources include: >> assets, user accounts, and assorted services like lookup services, >> forums, etc. [And this is the thing] A Grid includes one *or more* >> simulator trust domains. > > I hope that at some point in the future we can also unbundle user > accounts and assets from that as I think those really belong to the user > and can be anywhere on the net. A user would then merely delegate > authorization to access those services to a grid. > I really would like to have things as decoupled as possible which of > course is right now a bit problematic when things are based on the > Linden viewer. > But you could always group them back into one thing again later. > >> For the purposes of security, it's clear that the client can't talk >> directly to a central grid-wide server, but it has to do it with the >> specific simulators, which then can redirect to their authorities. > > Hm, why is that? The client could get some token and use that (e.g. via > the OAuth signature mechanism) to access those services (inside or > outside the grid). > > -- Christian > > > _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
