Re: [mmox] The Story So Far...

["Hurliman, John" <[e-mail]>]

The HyperGrid implementation in OpenSim today establishes a full trust link between two separate service stacks (grids). It's a very clever way of combining grids, but doesn't address how untrusted administrative domains interact with each other at all. I don't understand why you keep comparing Agent Domain and HyperGrid.

My understanding of the Agent Domain model is that it maps every trust relationship between grids to a policy decision. This is important for the business case of company X and company Y creating a partnership that is explicitly configured, but glazes over the 99.999% use case of moving from untrusted grid A to untrusted grid B. I haven't seen any work from AWG addressing the possibility of eliminating all grid<->grid communication (google.com doesn't communicate with the links I click, the browser is perfectly capable of managing its own state).

John

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lawson English [mailto:[e-mail]]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:32 AM
>To: Hurliman, John
>Cc: [e-mail]
>Subject: Re: [mmox] The Story So Far...
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>Hurliman, John wrote:
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>> It's my understanding that Open Grid Protocol (OGP) is a Linden Lab
>project; part of the Linden Lab AWG which had no active contributors
>that were also active developers of libSecondLife/libOpenMetaverse or
>OpenSim during the time the OGP protocols were designed. The "agent
>domain" concept in OGP terminology brings in a host of assumptions that
>are diametrically opposed to the goals of libOpenMetaverse and OpenSim
>(supporting millions of independent administrative domains and service
>providers).
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>> The current MMOX charter makes no reference to specific
>implementations such as Linden Lab's OGP, which I think is the correct
>approach.
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>The Agent Domain vs HyperGrid models can be seen as somewhat extreme
>opposites in m dimensions of some n-dimensional space. There's plenty of
>room for cooperation/collaboration/assimilation/mishhashing in the
>middle.
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>And other models might address n+1 dimensions as well.
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>Lawson
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