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

[InuYasha Meiji]

Sorry, this is what I get for writing email at 5:31am.  So you are 
saying I would have to give you the gridinventory service link in order 
to choose to suport this service.  Ok then I guess I am goo dfor now, 
just won't give that info out.  Sorry I got confused.

Inu.


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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