[Opensim-dev] anon logins

[Dr Scofield]

Paul Fishwick wrote:
> People do a lot of web-browsing and perhaps anon accounts will help better
> integrate opensim with the web. Consider the following:
> 
>  1. Someone is browsing the web for a topic such as "red wine"
>  2. They get to various wine distributor and vineyard web pages
>  3. They find out that one of the vineyards has a "hot link" to a 3D space
>  4. They click on it and find themselves in the opensim world for the 
> vineyard
> 
> We need to find ways of making it easier, and more transparent, to go 
> between
> #2 and #4. It may be that a stepping-stone is required such as Xenki, 
> which is
> browser embedded (before launching a full-blown viewer).
> 
> Anon accounts may help because it is similar to unrestricted web browsing.
> And, these accounts may ease the transition between #2 and #4, and thus
> grow the metaverse.
> 

interesting thoughts. we could give anonymous guests black and white avatars :-)

i like the idea of a randomly chosen first (or last) name. we could even
integrate that with gridinfo and the rezzme URI scheme and protocol handlers: a
rezzme URI such as

    rezzme://anonymous%20anonymous@vineyard.com:9000/merlot/

could obtain as part of the mandatory gridinfo retrieval from vineyard.com:9000
also obtain an anonymous user name generated by the grid and the client would
then use that as the avatar name; for example, vineyard.com's gridinfo might return

	<anonymous>Joe Anonymous</anonymous>

the restriction on the anonymous user class would be as specified (and they'd
get a black & white avatar :-)

	cheers,
	DrS/dirk

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