[Opensim-dev] More on asset portability

[Kyle Hamilton]

I've more comments on the rest of this, but I have to address one point first...

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 7:39 PM, liu xiaolu <lulurun at gmail.com> wrote:
> UseCase II.
>>User B uploads a texture, which AI does it go in?  User B puts that
>>texture on a surface, what AI does it live in?
>
> Since AssetServer and InventoryServer has became properties of an user, when
> an user specified AI server urls avaliable, regionserver should always
> get/put
> user owned assets from/to the user specified AI server.
> So in this case,
> * User B uploads a texture, it gose in Grid B's AI.
> * User B puts that texture on a surface:
> this is a quite complecated thing.
> "that texture" belongs to User B, but when it is put on a region owned prim,
> a copy of "that texture" should be made, and the copy should be saved in
> Grid A's asset server. ...
> yes,
>            "More thought needed."  -- stefan

So, you're essentially saying that assets should be automatically
copied based on the local InventoryServer's interpretation of
ownership?

What if the local InventoryServer is malicious and doesn't have any
desire to adhere to ownership rules?

-Kyle H