<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I have to key on the words "disconnect the asset and inventory servers from a particular grid".<br><br>Are you proposing that there be a planetary asset and inventory server at 3di for the entire Metaverse?<br><br>How would you see this working in a world with multiple grids and multiple use cases?<br><br>Charles<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Johan Berntsson <johan@3di.jp><br>To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br>Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:11:36 AM<br>Subject: [Opensim-dev] More on asset portability<br><br>
Hi,<br><br>Recently lulurun mailed about asset portability. Today I had a long <br>conversation with him, and I would like to restart the discussion from a <br>slightly different point of view.<br><br>What lulurun wants to do is to disconnect the asset and inventory <br>servers from a particular grid, so that it is possible to login on <br>another grid and still have access to your avatar, belongings etc. There <br>are already two fields (asseturl and inventoryurl) in the user server <br>that can be used for this purpose. The problem is that not all avatar <br>information is contained in the Inventory server. The user server <br>contains "wearables" data (list of UUID's). Now, the question is why <br>this information supplied by the user server. Wouldn't it be more <br>natural to have it in the Inventory Server?<br><br>If we clarified the roles of the user and inventory servers, and kept <br>all asset information in the inventory server, then it would be
much <br>easier to use external inventory/asset servers. This means that we want <br>to move the AvatarAppearance API from the User server to the <br>InventoryServer. The logic would be changed so that the default <br>inventory and asset servers are used unless the asseturl and <br>inventoryurl are defined. That is, the grid would continue to use its <br>own asset and inventory servers unless you supply more information.<br><br>We plan to do work in this area soon, and welcome any feedback and <br>comment you have.<br><br>Cheers,<br>joha1<br>_______________________________________________<br>Opensim-dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de" href="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de">Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de</a><br><a href="https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev" target="_blank">https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev</a><br></div></div></div></body></html>