<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dear Crista:<br><br>All of your ideas seem eminently reasonable to me, up to and including dedicating certain spaces for HyperGridLinks.<br><br>I would look at this and say that OpenSim can and should evolve in its own direction for OpenSim<->OpenSim grid that has little to do with OGP. Certainly, we can share logic ideas, but I would not suggest we wait for another group, but rather plow ahead and see where we get.<br><br>Great job getting it to this stage. Looks like lots of excitement out there.<br><br>Charles<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Cristina Videira Lopes <lopes@ics.uci.edu><br>To: opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br>Sent:
Thursday, October 30, 2008 8:13:32 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] OSGrid <-> UCIGrid<br><br>
James Stallings II wrote:<br>> I have a question or two about this too Diva :D<br>><br>> First one is, can this be used to 'map' to the linden grid?<br>Theoretically, yes. But LL would have to want to support this protocol. <br>I confess I have been focusing on OpenSim, because it's just easier for <br>me to prototype this. I'm reusing *alot* of what's already there; the <br>hypergrid is a very thin layer on top of OSG1 and the WorldMap.<br><br>> Second is, does one need to get a region on the originating grid and <br>> 'dedicate it' to the link? does it require an actual running copy of <br>> opensim on the 'gateway' region? (thinking in terms of resource <br>> overhead here)<br>You need to have a "page" (=region) on the originating grid that <br>contains the hyperlink to the other grid. Like, for example, the region <br>I have in OSGrid called UCI Welcome. That's a consequence of the fact <br>that the hypergrid, right now, is an
extension of OpenSim, it doesn't <br>come with OpenSim out-of-the-box. The hyperlinks themselves are placed <br>somewhere, from that region; in theory they can override regions on that <br>grid. In practice I'm thinking we need to institute conventions, like <br>naming conventions (for example calling the hyperlink regions "XXX <br>Gateway") and placement conventions (like placing them in commonly <br>accepted grid locations like the 8000's)<br><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>