<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thank you, Michael, for a good and objective description. I would concur with your points.<br><br>As we move forward, we also have to consider that economic considerations come into play in the notion of "personal trust" and "software trust logic".<br><br>There are folks already using both V$ (VirtualWallet) on some OpenSim regions and grids. Other folks are using vendor scripts with external web site connections in browsers. So, delivering goods and services in a reliable manner with currency transactions will have a significant effect on both notions of trust.<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: 10pt;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Michael Cortez <mcortez@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:31:09 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Opensim-dev] The essence of "grid"<br></font><br>
Michael Cortez wrote:<br>> My thoughts:<br>><br>> To me, a Grid is a virtual space that can be of any given size, and to <br>> date, currently consists of one or more discrete Regions that are laid <br>> out in a two dimensional grid pattern. A Grid allows for these <br>> discrete individual spaces to be joined together to provide a seamless <br>> virtual space that viewers can traverse as if they were a single large <br>> simulation.<br>><br>> A Grid can consist of just a single Region, or many Regions.<br>><br>> Within a Grid, it may be desirable to assign ownership of virtual <br>> space to specific agents for administration. Those agents, through <br>> their viewers (or other means) should be able to determine who may <br>> enter their space, what those visitors can do once there, including <br>> what communications are available and what objects they may simulate. <br>> Currently
we determine areas of administration in 256m^2 regions of <br>> space, that are then sub-divided by parcels.<br>Oh, and I forgot to mention, I fully expect to see Grids of Grids -- in <br>fact, OSGrid could be seen as a grid of grids. It consists of many <br>individual Regions of space, that can on their own be considered a grid.<br><br>I'll state it again here, for those that don't care to read my other <br>longer rambling message -- each instance of OpenSim is to a certain <br>extent a self contained grid. In standalone mode it has nearly all the <br>same services as what is currently called a "Grid" -- and those services <br>that are missing could be added. In fact, "Grid Mode" is simply the <br>delegation of specific subsets of responsibility to another entity.<br><br>--<br>Michael Cortez<br>_______________________________________________<br>Opensim-dev mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:Opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de"
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