[Opensim-dev] More on asset portability

[Dr Scofield]

Ryan McDougall wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 20:36 -0700, Kyle Hamilton wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>     
>
> When you talk about malicious InventoryServers you start walking into
> dangerous territory because really *any* program could be potentially
> compromised, and we start wandering off into the dark jungle of security
> and DRM.
>   
that's putting it nicely even...DRM is a quagmire. start stepping into 
it and sooner or later (mostly sooner) you'll hit that bog and are soon 
history.

    dr scofield

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