[Opensim-dev] Micropayment

[Adam Frisby]

RegionModules are very powerful critters - we've been moving things like 
Teleports, Instant Messaging & Chat, Asset Proxying, etc into modules. 
There's very little you cant do with either a RegionModule or an 
ApplicationModule.

They also have the added benefit that you can 'share' region modules 
between multiple scenes and save a big buttload of memory.

Regards,

Adam

Aldon Hynes wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dalien Talbot
> 
> 
>>I am advocating we should change the design of the feature such that
>>the presence of the untrusted sim minimizes the collateral damage,
>>preferrably without the alterations to the client side.
> 
> 
> Yes, these are the sort of considerations that I think we should be
> thinking about.
> 
> 
>>the user identity and the interdomain (or intersim
>>within single grid) trust model are the foundations which we do not
>>have at the moment - and I believe they are critical to be able to
>>understand on how to tackle micropayments in any meaningful way :)
> 
> 
> I think this gets to some of the crux of the issue.  Identity and
> interdomain
> or intersim trust models seems like it should be a core issue that
> people focus on, independent of the peculiarities of micropayments,
> and it was this context that started the whole discussion.
> 
> 
>>Claiming the existence of the micropayments system is a huge liability
>>from the PR standpoint for the project - even if we consider the "toy
>>tokens" to be nonexchangeable into any real money. Once there's any
>>touch with the real money, additionally there're legal legislation
>>rules that kick into place - I guess this is one of the reasons why
>>there's no rush in this direction.
> 
> 
> As I've repeatedly noted, I'm more interested in the architectural
> issues than I am in the PR or legal issues.  I thought that was
> what the list was trying to focus on.
> 
> 
>>In any case - I totally agree that just merely implementing a plugin
>>doing a simple database backend doing the L$ arithmetics + packet
>>handling code as a sort of module is a useful thing, and is very
>>welcomed - it would be a very good start.
> 
> 
> When I get some free time, I will explore this.  Looking at the wiki
> for comments about modules, all I see is about adding Region modules.
> I'm not sure that this fits as a region module, so thoughts about
> how to add this as a user or communication module would be appreciated.
> 
> Likewise, I'm curious about how the client receives information about
> how many dollars an avatar has.  Any ideas in tackling that, as well
> as writing a module that is consistent with any data abstraction layer
> would be appreciated.
> 
> 
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