[Opensim-dev] Universal Avatar Question

[Daedius]

I'm not sure I understand you.  You sound like your talking too
opensim & OSGrid specific.  Shouldn't Universial Avatar Services be
something cross grid?  What if someone doesn't use opensim in the
future.  I think you need to be thinking at this from a higher level a
bit Charles.

- Daedius

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Charles Krinke <cfk at pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> As I think about this a little more, I rapidly get to where I look at the
> users table in the mysql datastor for the grid.
>
> Things that are needed for a login are pretty much all in this table. The
> first item, "UUID" is the user server perception of the identity of an
> avatar. Everything in other tables is referenced from users.UUID.
>
> The grid contains a username, lastname & passwordSalt. These are compared to
> the incoming first & last and then the password is processed and compared
> with passwordSalt.
>
> At that time, the entry users.homeRegion comes into play and other things
> such as users.userInventoryURI and users.userAssetURI become real important
> for a succesful login.
>
> So, from a grid viewpoint, there already is a set of entries for each user
> in the mysql database. It isnt quite as simple as just having a universal
> avatar id.
>
> I have to say again, that from the viewpoint of OSGrid, we desire to stay
> close to the OpenSim release cycle and test and deploy svn releases at the
> pleasure of the core developers and the stakeholders that use OSGrid. So,
> this really does get back to OpenSim.
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Daedius <daedius at daedius.com>
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 6:24:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Universal Avatar Question
>
>  Hey there Charles,
>
> Thanks for posting this.  I would like to put out a call to grid
> owners to help form the grid information services of the future.  I'm
> one of the active developers of openviewer, and the more I work and
> design, there more I feel the  NEED for more information from grid
> owners! =)  I have a number of ideas that need the participation of
> opensim.  Personally though, I believe this should be a project
> outside of opensim.  Here are a few examples of things I foresee us
> needing in the immediate future:
>
> - ability to autoregister an avatar on a grid
> - ability to get information about the grid: descriptions, image/icon,
> tags of what type of content ( sex, language, interests, etc)
> - ability to get some measure of lag between the client and server
> - ability to get population and logged on information of avatars externally
>
> These things COULD all be within opensim, but what I would like to do,
> is create a new project.  I've started a project on google code called
> "thirdlife" where I am going to focus my efforts on grid information
> services.  If any of you all are grid owners, I'd like to get a hold
> of you to try to figure out what information exactly you all are
> looking to expose to users.  Thanks!
>
> - Daedius
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Charles Krinke <cfk at pacbell.net> wrote:
> >
> > I am sorry to open yet another Pandora's Box this week, but two different
> > folks have approached me as the OSGrid Director in the last two days about
> > putting experimental software on the grid server to begin prototyping
> ideas
> > to allow an avatar to log onto multiple grids.
> >
> > I have told both, that I desire to stay with the mainline OpenSim desires
> as
> > this evolves.
> >
> > I think the issue is that we may need to give some thought to pulling
> > together some of the ideas from the various parties in order to head in a
> > direction that lets us continue to lead this charge.
> >
> > Charles
> >
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