[Opensim-dev] The essence of "grid"

[Michael Cortez]

Melanie wrote:
> 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 :)
>   
That is unless, in the attempt to make hypergrid work securely, you 
remove the ability for an instance of OpenSim to talk directly to and 
directly manipulate the assets of a user's inventory w/o asking the 
user's client for permission or even worse if you force OpenSim to proxy 
through the client it's requests to access the user's inventory.


Wouldn't be too bad I guess, if OpenSim was told told where the user's 
inventory/asset server was, and was issued a token allowing it full 
permissions to access and modify the user's inventory -- then yes, you 
could setup OpenSim to deny connections where the client does not 
specify the preferred inventory/asset server, or if a client does not 
provide the full access token to it.


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Michael Cortez