Re: [mmox] Interop ongoing between OpenSim grids

[Lawson English <[e-mail]>]

Charles Krinke wrote:
> Ok, well, please stop me if I get too wrapped up in OpenSim stuff that 
> is of little interest to others as I do not want to appear to be 
> saying "this is the only way it can be", but you encouraged me, so 
> here is a bit more.
>
> As I understand what is happening, Prof. Crista Lopes is using the 
> CAPS in the SecondLife viewer as much as practical. Her view of 
> development is based on the message_template file in LibOMV (formerly 
> libsecondlife). I understand that both the SL viewer and the Hippo 
> viewer function.
>
> It appears to me that she is keeping an assetServer connection back to 
> the originating grid to allow inventory to come along and be rezzed 
> (instanced) in the destination sim. So, this is a matter of 
> re-directing the SecondLife "circuits" to enable this interop.
>
> Certainly, one can argue that SecondLife and OpenSim are closely 
> related in at least functionality since OpenSim strives to be 
> compatible with the SecondLife viewer. But, there are other viewers 
> being used now and I see this as an ongoing interop effort also. 
> Whether the viewer<->sim definitions become part of MMOX, I dont know. 
> That will be partly up to this group as it defines its charter.
>
> Avatars are arriving on OSGrid with names above their heads of the 
> form "First Last@dottedDecimal:port", which seems as good a way as any 
> to distinguish some semblance of identity right now to avoid avatar 
> name collisions.
>
> One last note on OpenSim for now. It turns out that OpenSim does not 
> use the notion of an AgentDomain or a RegionDomain at all. The OpenSim 
> architecture consists of five processes that tie a grid together. 
> These five processes, which can run all on one server on different 
> ports are known as the UGAIM. UGAIM stands for 
> UserGridAssetInventoryMessaging, and denotes a UserServer, GridServer, 
> AssetServer, InventoryServer and MessagingServer.

Agent Domain has pretty much evolved into an authorization/service 
introduction server, I think. It doesn't fit into the UGAIM directly but 
as a proxy between them, it seems to me, to facilitate the definition of 
trust relationships between the UGAIM services.




Lawson