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

[Snowcrash Short]

Thank you Melanie

I will policy enforcement prior to releasing the source code.

Best regards
Snowcrash

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

> Hi Snow,
>
> you're correct on that assumption. The policy of Avination is very
> similar to Second Life.
>
> Using automated tools, users may export what they have wholly
> created themselves.
>
> Please apply policy accordingly.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Melanie
>
> On 15/11/2012 10:44, 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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