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Re: [mmox] OGP scalability concerns

Jason Giglio <gigstaggart@gmail.com> Thu, 02 April 2009 06:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mmox] OGP scalability concerns
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Meadhbh Hamrick (Infinity) wrote:
>>> *	There will be millions of worlds in an Internet-scale metaverse,
>>> which makes the concept of interop through trust agreements far too
>>> narrow.  Trust loses its meaning entirely when scaled to millions,
>>> becoming mere paperwork or "security theater".
> 
> +1. what's your suggestion?


My suggestion is that it's not appropriate to talk about client
identity, trust, or authentication as a service to be provided in a
centralized manner.

The rest of the Internet gets along just fine without it.  Sure I can
get a CA to sign something that says I am who I am, but no one much
cares; the rest of the net has routed around the problem of client
identification. I'm not sure why we would need to tackle something so
fundamentally difficult here, when it's not really necessary.

-Jason

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