[Opensim-dev] The essence of "grid"

[Melanie]

Then they simply mandate that users use the inventory provider 
provided by the organization, and not allow HG protocols on the 
grid. Always easier to take away than to add :)

Melanie

Michael Cortez wrote:
> Melanie wrote:
>> In the current thinking:
>>
>> Users should be in control of their own inventory and it's 
>> associated assets, independent of a single grid.
>>
>> This means:
>>
>> - users can select where their data is stored. This may be an ISP, a 
>> web hoster, a grid or their own PC (bandwidth permitting). No 
>> simulator has authority over that storage.
>>   
> I know this is where you and others have hashed things to, but please 
> keep in mind -- the scenario where an organization may not want the user 
> to be in control of their inventory, and where they have no say as to 
> where it is stored.  I understand that it's not the general scenario of 
> people talking about hypergrid, but OpenSim is a platform that will be 
> used for things other then "hypergridding" and I don't want to see 
> alternative scenarios ruled out, or marginalized because of the current 
> focus on hypergrid.
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Michael Cortez
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