Thank you Melanie<div><br></div><div>I will policy enforcement prior to releasing the source code.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Snowcrash<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Melanie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:melanie@t-data.com" target="_blank">melanie@t-data.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Snow,<br>
<br>
you're correct on that assumption. The policy of Avination is very<br>
similar to Second Life.<br>
<br>
Using automated tools, users may export what they have wholly<br>
created themselves.<br>
<br>
Please apply policy accordingly.<br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
Melanie<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 15/11/2012 10:44, Snowcrash Short wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
><br>
> I've been working on a client side tool for decentralizing user<br>
> inventories, which I will release as an open source tool in two weeks, some<br>
> of the features may be relevant to grid operators.<br>
><br>
> The basic premise of the tool is that the inventory and the backing assets<br>
> of the inventory items really should be controlled by the user. The tool is<br>
> born out of a frustration of having visited a number of grids. Each visit<br>
> to a new grid presents me with an empty inventory, and I can then spend<br>
> time searching for suitable item, clothing, attachments and<br>
> other accessories.<br>
><br>
> For this purpose I have created a tool which will allow me to backup my<br>
> inventory to a local cache and then upload the contents to another grid.<br>
><br>
> If my tool becomes popular, both the upload and download mechanisms may<br>
> have some impact on the grid-operators, hence this email to serve as a<br>
> notice.<br>
><br>
> The basic architecture is pretty simple, consisting of a number of import<br>
> agents, which can import the users inventory and backing assets to a local<br>
> database, and a number of upload agents which can upload inventory content<br>
> to a specific account.<br>
><br>
> Backup/Import<br>
> There are two import agents, one which will import .iar files and one which<br>
> works very much like I believe "Stored Inventory" works, which can backup<br>
> the inventory of an avatars inventory. Avatar backup/Import is governed by<br>
> a policy. Currently there are two policies, one complying with a very<br>
> restrictive interpretation of the Linden Labs policy on backups, and a<br>
> completely unrestricted policy, where anything that can be downloaded will<br>
> be downloaded.<br>
><br>
> When a new account is registered in MyInventory it checks if the account is<br>
> for a Linden Lab grid and limits the choices of policies to policies<br>
> suitable for LL's TOS, I cannot and do not know if other grids have similar<br>
> policies, I can well imagine that Avination has a similar restrictions, and<br>
> would like similar logic implemented to restrict the download. Any grid<br>
> operator which would like to have backup governed by a more restrictive<br>
> policy are invited to notify me and I will attempt to implement the policy<br>
> prior to the first release of the source code. or supply patches at a later<br>
> time.<br>
><br>
> Upload/Export<br>
> MyInventory supports two mechanisms for uploading inventory<br>
> content, traditional upload using UDP/CAPS and direct access to the<br>
> inventory and asset web-services.<br>
> Due to limitations in the UDP/CAPS protocol each upload will create new<br>
> assets, and as of my latest read of the Open Simulator code the asset store<br>
> does not support "single instance assets", i.e. it does not use a checksum<br>
> to verify if the asset already exists, for this reason MyInventory prefers<br>
> to upload using direct access to asset and inventory web-services.<br>
><br>
> I would propose that the grids which chooses to support MyInventory augment<br>
> their "GridInfoService" entries with the url's for the asset and inventory<br>
> web-services, e.g.<br>
><br>
> [GridInfoService]<br>
> assets = <a href="http://assets.osgrid.org" target="_blank">http://assets.osgrid.org</a><br>
> inventory = <a href="http://inventory.osgrid.org" target="_blank">http://inventory.osgrid.org</a><br>
><br>
> Best regards<br>
> Snowcrash<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
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