Re: [mmox] User Accounts / "Object" Transfer.

[Gareth Nelson <[e-mail]>]

I think a better analogy is, if I have a phone and send a picture to
you using the builtin camera, then I turn my phone off. Suddenly your
phone can't access the picture (of course in reality we send the whole
picture to you).

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 5:45 AM, Jon Watte <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Gareth Nelson wrote:
>>
>> This is a nice way of looking at the problem. So far, everyone has
>> assumed we send whole objects together with scripts, a very SL-centric
>> approach. Of course, one big problem is this:
>> 1 - VW A has Cool Object X
>> 2 - User A on VW A sends Cool Object X to user B on VW B
>> 3 - User B on VW B rez's it (and let's assume they're both utterly
>> different types of world)
>> 4 - VW B's servers talk to VW A and ask VW A to simulate the object
>>
>> What happens in step 4 if VW A's servers are down?
>>
>
>
> How can the user even be available to interoperate if VW A server is down?
>
> Think of it like cell phones. If I call you, and you don't have your cell
> phone on (not "logged in" to "your system"), or your cell phone operator has
> an outage ("server down"), then how can I call you? I can't.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> jw
>
>