WinterKnight and I were talking on IRC last night about this. He (as well as Kao and others) all agree that a "portable identity" (single sign-on) across many sites is the way to go, instead of having to sign up for every stupid little web site and 3D world you might want to walk in to.
One thing that came up was that it would make sense for the authentication server to maybe also have some minimal presence information -- since logging in indicates that you're online, it's the logical place to publish that information to others. You could then contact your friends and find out which world(s) they are logged on to and go join them. It would just be a matchmaking/directory service, I don't think it would even necessarily pass instant messages, but rather provide the tools to find people, set up a direct chat conversation, etc. There's also the "Liberty Alliance" which is a business-oriented identity management framework: http://www.projectliberty.org/ (the page for the suits) and http://www.openliberty.org/ ("open source community" page) They use SAML 2.0 (I think, anyone know about this?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML Finally, I think you can do authentication over LDAP as well, and there's a bunch of proprietary technologies like Active Directory. I'm beginning to have a better appreciation for how important security and identity management is going to be for online 3D. On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:37:42AM -0500, Reed Hedges wrote: > > Talking about authentication/identity in future 3D worlds etc.: > > Just found out about this: http://openid.net/ > > Decentralized shared ID thing. Anyone know anythnig about it? > > Reed > > > > _______________________________________________ > vos-d mailing list > vos-d@interreality.org > http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d -- [ Peter Amstutz ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ][ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] [Lead Programmer][Interreality Project][Virtual Reality for the Internet] [ VOS: Next Generation Internet Communication][ http://interreality.org ] [ http://interreality.org/~tetron ][ pgpkey: pgpkeys.mit.edu 18C21DF7 ]
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