[Opensim-dev] Alternatively Identifying Assets using URL's

[Stefan Andersson]

It is my impression that adressing by uri/url has been a goal for the last 1.5 years or so.

 

I'd be interested in hearing if there's actually anybody _not_ wanting us to work towards that.

 

The only issue that I can see would be in regards to SL compatibility. I have started to poc an approach where guid-based adressing of resources is considered a thing purely between the viewer and the content endpoint (aka the region) - that the region acts as a 'proxy' translating guids to uris and back as needed. So far the code is merely stubs, so I haven't got to the point of proofing it, but I believe you all understand what I'm saying. Have a look at what uses the fairly new ContainsReferences method on AssetBase to see where I was going.

Best regards,
Stefan Andersson



 
> Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 08:56:57 +0300
> From: tommi.s.e.laukkanen at gmail.com
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Alternatively Identifying Assets using URL's
> 
> If we do not consider SL restrictions for a second and look to the
> future it would be nice to discuss the following which popped out from
> dahlias idea of supporting loading textures from websites directly and
> Stefans suggestion of using strings as ids in the standard format
> thread:
> 
> It is good to consider supporting identification of assets by
> traditional urls. Some public asset servers could be www servers or
> svn http servers. As all 3d modeling programs are refering to
> aggregate assets using file paths, it would be easy to upload the
> model to SVN http server and then using viewer pull out the model and
> aggregate assets for viewing. This could be alternative asset
> distribution model. it could work through region asset cache or
> directly from viewer to the http server. This could be much more
> scalable than the current model. I realize this is a threat to the
> data consistency as models and aggregate assets are not saved to
> relational database which could safeguard relations. It is also viable
> only for completely public content but I assume considerable portion
> of the vw content is likely to be freely distributable.
> 
> This would be in practice support for "importing" content from web on the fly.
> 
> -tommi
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