[Opensim-dev] More on asset portability

[Chris Down]

> If we clarified the roles of the user and inventory servers, and kept
> all asset information in the inventory server, then it would be much
> easier to use external inventory/asset servers. This means that we want
> to move the AvatarAppearance API from the User server to the
> InventoryServer. The logic would be changed so that the default
> inventory and asset servers are used unless the asseturl and
> inventoryurl are defined. That is, the grid would continue to use its
> own asset and inventory servers unless you supply more information.
> 
> We plan to do work in this area soon, and welcome any feedback and
> comment you have.

This sounds like an good idea.

Could this be extended such that the inventory table contained the url of
the asset server that stores item? This would then lead to a distributed
asset system. Not all assets would need to come from the same asset server.

Chris