[Opensim-dev] Authentication, take 2: Capabilities

[Dr Scofield]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> Actually, I think getting a 'true' CAPS model going (for those stacks
> that would use it) would be a major win.

+1

>  
> Getting more user-based stuff moved off the regions as performance and
> trust bottlenecks would be a major win.

+1

>  
> Regarding the user/inventory service as a bottleneck, I believe that
> it's no better or worse than having the region as one - walled garden or
> not, users will come from differing user/inventory servers anyway, and
> the ability to load balance those services is just as interesting as
> being able to load balance regions.

+1

>  
> One example is that right now, the user can get 'stuck' in an
> uncooperative region. As I understand it, with CAPS (if it would work)
> you could assure that the user at least always can teleport off an
> unresponsive server - even forcibly teleport him off it - which would be
> a major win.
>  
> Along the same lines, you could start initiating some actions from a web
> ui, which would be a major step forward.
> 
> Getting some people from the sl-dev list to cooperate closely with us to
> map out exactly what calls could reliably used over CAPS would be a
> major win. (No more guessing games - let's get the facts.)

+1


>  
> Regarding the complexity of the solution, I believe that with the
> current modularization that we're moving towards, and if the CAPS system
> could be made truly portable over region and grid modules, thru
> (customized) streamhandlers (there is an LLSDStreamHandler, actually) I
> think that the complexity could be alleviated - simply put, the trust
> policy would just be a matter of configuring where the trusted llsd
> handlers would be instantiated. If it's on a user server, or on a region
> server, I believe that they could use the same set of CAPS modules, if
> those modules had an IInventoryService, an IUserService and an
> ITeleportService proxy or implementation.
> 
> That said, CAPS as of now is fundamentally a LLClientView thing, so one
> probably needs to think about how one would slice that cake.
>  
> But above all, +1 on getting a 'true' CAPS implementation in place. Go
> Diva! (Godiva?)

+1




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