[Opensim-dev] WG: oddities with asset storage

[Ralf Haifisch]

Having done some right management implementation, I would guess this is only
fixable by a right management system.


The possibility to adjust rights (who is allowed to do what) must be bound
to the single object, rather than using a ACL-based concept.

If you want to read some thoughts about this:
http://opensim.cybertechnews.org/?p=167 

I think opensim is far away from that now and a trusted stack is difficult
to implement in an open source environment - still possible.

Would need some mid-term planning and work.

The good part: openID is in place already.


If we don´t go to RM, someone with administrative rights will ever be able
to steal wathever he likes.


Cheers,
Ralf
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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:58:16 +0000
From: Melanie <melanie at t-data.com>
Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] oddities with asset storage
To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
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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