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

[Melanie]

Apparently, the extra entries are for more efficient upload. Unless
a grid specifies the policy they want, open download and the
inefficient upload mechanism will be in effect for it.

Melanie

On 15/11/2012 11:32, InuYasha Meiji wrote:
> 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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