[Opensim-dev] rex auth & avatar systems (Re: future rexviewer merger)

[Stefan Andersson]

Ahem.
 
Something I've been asking since Finland, a year ago, is why we have the notion of a 'appearance service' as our base case at all, local storage or not.
 
It would seem, that the only thing the avatar appearance rendering component really need is a url ('All you need is url', the Beatles) that points to something serving an appearance asset of the right family of forms. This in turn can refer to other resources by url.
 
Ie, that url could be a static html page, or something generated by a cms, or from a database, or to a file on your hard disk that you authored with some cool tool.
I just wanted to make sure that the _base_case_ is not an interactive authentication and negotiation process - that would cut off a magnitude of use cases where that just doesn't make sense.
 
Again, think of the web (1.0 and 2.0) - we're only negotiating for content when it makes sense, otherwise, free and simple access is key.
Best regards,Stefan AnderssonTribal Media AB Join the 3d web revolution : http://tribalnet.se/ > Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 08:10:31 +0000> From: melanie at t-data.com> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de> Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] rex auth & avatar systems (Re: future rexviewer merger)> > Hello,> > Toni Alatalo wrote:> > Melanie, the avatar storage server is a piece of software that you can > > host in any way you want - if you want to run one coupled with a > > viewer, just do.> > > > About keeping avatar appearance data on the client, what would that > > mean for a user that uses several different clients on different > > machines?> > > > I believe that there are several possible scenarios where the rex > avatar storage concept can be commercially exploited in ways > detrimental to the users' needs.> > I believe that the user's needs are best served if they upload their > appearance from their local system, on connect, to the world server, > which then lets others download it from there.> Otherwise the avatar appearance service gains a "gatekeeper" role to > the 3d internet that I am not ready to assign to it.> > Users using several different clients could use a USB key or other > means of local storage. Avatar-on-a-keyring might even be the > solution for Internet Cafes there.> > Opensim should be able to accommodate all these viewpoints, which is > why decoupling mesh support from avatar login service support is > very important to me.> > Melanie> _______________________________________________> Opensim-dev mailing list> Opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
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