[Opensim-users] Announcement of inventory tool (MyInventory), mostly of interest to grid operators/grid nauts

[InuYasha Meiji]

Not sure I like this idea.  One reason my Grid isn't connected to OSGrid 
is my grid has a specific theme in mind.  I didn't want to combine the 
item I created for my Ryukyu Kingdom early 17th century with all the 
random items from OsGrid.  I am not open publicly yet, I am still 
building and only have let a few trusted people in to see what I have so 
far.  This may take years to finish.   I am trying to kep it in the 17th 
century without people building flashy clubs and getting around on tanks 
and planes, if you understand what I mean.

In the meantime, the things I give out for free, to use, on my grid I 
also sell in Secondlife to pay fees, and my yearly account. I like 
having friends there as well as OsGrid and my own place. If I loose my 
SL income I can't afford to be there at all.  I would most likely not 
stay on SL.  If this program, you plan is used on my system, and people 
are just taking copies of the free items I give out and freely take them 
to other grids. including SL, they may even try to sell my items in SL 
and make a profit.

To me this is almost as bad as the copybot problem SL had, but for 
opensim creators. who wish to keep some control over where some of their 
items end up.

InuYasha



On 11/15/2012 4:44 AM, Snowcrash Short wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been working on a client side tool for decentralizing user 
> inventories, which I will release as an open source tool in two weeks, 
> some of the features may be relevant to grid operators.
>
> The basic premise of the tool is that the inventory and the backing 
> assets of the inventory items really should be controlled by the user. 
> The tool is born out of a frustration of having visited a number of 
> grids. Each visit to a new grid presents me with an empty inventory, 
> and I can then spend time searching for suitable item, clothing, 
> attachments and other accessories.
>
> For this purpose I have created a tool which will allow me to backup 
> my inventory to a local cache and then upload the contents to another 
> grid.
>
> If my tool becomes popular, both the upload and download mechanisms 
> may have some impact on the grid-operators, hence this email to serve 
> as a notice.
>
> The basic architecture is pretty simple, consisting of a number of 
> import agents, which can import the users inventory and backing assets 
> to a local database, and a number of upload agents which can upload 
> inventory content to a specific account.
>
> Backup/Import
> There are two import agents, one which will import .iar files and one 
> which works very much like I believe "Stored Inventory" works, which 
> can backup the inventory of an avatars inventory. Avatar backup/Import 
> is governed by a policy. Currently there are two policies, 
> one complying with a very restrictive interpretation of the Linden 
> Labs policy on backups, and a completely unrestricted policy, where 
> anything that can be downloaded will be downloaded.
>
> When a new account is registered in MyInventory it checks if the 
> account is for a Linden Lab grid and limits the choices of policies to 
> policies suitable for LL's TOS, I cannot and do not know if other 
> grids have similar policies, I can well imagine that Avination has a 
> similar restrictions, and would like similar logic implemented to 
> restrict the download. Any grid operator which would like to have 
> backup governed by a more restrictive policy are invited to notify me 
> and I will attempt to implement the policy prior to the first release 
> of the source code. or supply patches at a later time.
>
> Upload/Export
> MyInventory supports two mechanisms for uploading inventory 
> content, traditional upload using UDP/CAPS and direct access to the 
> inventory and asset web-services.
> Due to limitations in the UDP/CAPS protocol each upload will create 
> new assets, and as of my latest read of the Open Simulator code the 
> asset store does not support "single instance assets", i.e. it does 
> not use a checksum to verify if the asset already exists, for this 
> reason MyInventory prefers to upload using direct access to asset and 
> inventory web-services.
>
> I would propose that the grids which chooses to support MyInventory 
> augment their "GridInfoService" entries with the url's for the asset 
> and inventory web-services, e.g.
>
> [GridInfoService]
>     assets = http://assets.osgrid.org
>     inventory = http://inventory.osgrid.org
>
> Best regards
> Snowcrash
>
>
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