> The dust has settled a bit
> ... along with my thoughts.
[cough cough]
> A person should be able to take their own Avatar into any world
> they choose.
not a problem
> This would imply that if you are wizard, citizen etc those powers
> hold true everywhere because those rights are assigned via the Avatar.
not true
rights are associated with the *user*
not the avatar which the user chooses for this session
[or they may just keep
what they used in the last session
which is the default]
> Problem is that the rights and functions of person vary not just by who
> they are but where they are.
so maybe user/WRL as "composite key" to find rights??
def not avatar
> You can say - just limit everyone, and offer powers & rights in return for
> good citizenship. But this gets unwieldy in the long term. Politics,
> jealousy, arrogence are in play. Rules change, get bent along with
> people...Mistakes and misunderstandings are still made by "empowered"
> people.
yeeeeees
and your point is... <g>
my point is
that is how the "real world" works
so why not?
> [...] I can see the variety of issues in VR theatre, Gaming, Work -
> each place individually ( or each event) could need differing levels of
> interaction from the people inside.
true
rights tied to user-in-a-place
[not to avatar]
> PS I think everyone should have the right to boot folks out of a world.
I disagree...
perhaps "gag" them
[so you don't get their chat-text]
but not boot...
I would like to reserve that for folks
who have shown they can be trusted by the WRL owner
to act in a responsible fashion
can everyone kick anyone out of a performance space in RL??
no
you call security or the producer
> Oh and about HTML - The Town Square Library does open a new HTML
> page, but for me alone. Other people in the world at the same time don't
get a page
> suddenly appearing ( Do they??? I guess I don't know for sure ).
hmmmmm
this might be problematical
given the security model of
an applet (like the VNet client)
inside a web-browser context
[can only open a socket back to the same machine
from which it was served]
anyone see a way out of this problem??
thanks for the discussion...
most useful
jeffs
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Jeff Sonstein
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Technology
Rochester Institute of Technology
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