[Opensim-dev] oddities with asset storage

[Dirk Krause]

Ok, then in my naive little world this would be the cloning business case with some kind of quality of service.

Basically you only sell me a link to your variety of assets. Then we have three cases:
- you keep this in your personal assets store, which might be something like a stand-alone cable beach server. When this server is unavailable, I cannot access your item.
- you run or rent some 'home/office space' on a particular region; if the region is unavailable, I again cannot access your item.
- you run your own grid or rent some 'grid space' on a particular grid; if the grid is unavailable, I again cannot access your item. Assuming that grid uptimes are good, this would be the best option in terms of accessibility.

In all three cases you yourself are a customer of either a region or a grid, because you need some level of QOS, which they provide unless you don't want to do this yourself.

If a grid owner is nice she gives you free access to, say, 20MB of personal inventory.

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] Im Auftrag von Melanie
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. Februar 2009 12:58
An: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
Betreff: Re: [Opensim-dev] oddities with asset storage

The issue I have with the concept is one of copyright. I may not 
grant the right to keep a local copy of an asset, because I may not 
want it to work on local installations or another grid, I may not 
want to give up my script source.

Melanie

Dr Scofield wrote:
> Dirk Krause wrote:
>> Glad you asked :-).
>> 
>> I would do a mixture of the following (and admit that I didn't think it all through to the very end).
>> 
>> - introduce grid wide, region wide and personal (user) asset domains
>> - introduce quotas for these
>> - allow clones ('byref') assets, and copies that go into one of the domains, resp.
>> 
>> I then would expect to have grid wide assets that are 'always on', region wide assets that only are important when the region is connected, and personal assets that are only visible when the user is online (could even be an FTP server behind a cable beach server).
>> 
>> It boils down to: if someone treasures something, she better keeps it in her treasure chest, in her responsibility (and maintenance cost).
>> 
> 
> ok. so i now buy something in your region, take it with me, rezz it on my
> region. how would that work and how would that address your concerns? oh, and my
> region is rather volatile, it might be there one moment, it might be off-line
> the next.
> 
> 	DrS/dirk
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