Re: [mmox] Permissions

[Jon Watte <[e-mail]>]

Lawson English wrote:
> SL, sorry to keep bringing it up, but its an important usecase, has 
> 20,000 simulators and some
> ludicrous number of "assets" to deal with. If there's no local caching 
> of assets on any other grid,
> permissions allowing, then the SL servers would be expected to be 
> asset server to the metaverse
> and they already groan under the strain of talking to the limited SL 
> world. The metaverse is

Note that the SL assets can only be used when the SL servers are 
participating in an interoperation scenario. If SL makes it a 
requirement that at least one SL customer is part of any interoperation 
scenario involving SL servers, then SL has a revenue stream for each 
such interoperation scenario. From the point of view of any one service 
provider, I think that this model will work well, and it will scale 
fine. The problem is then reduced to a per-provider problem, where each 
providers' ability to serve its customers is an implementation and 
business model detail, not an interoperation detail.

> projected to become 100-100x larger than Secondlife. the AWG's 
> original mission was to try to
> desing a SL-like meta-grid that would handle such "scary numbers." We 
> can't just handwave
> the issues away and suggest that existing systems and architectures 
> will "just do it" in some way.
>

I think we've all agreed that this group is not the AWG. Our role is not 
how to figure out how to "scale Second Life" or even "scale something 
Second Life-like." Our role is to figure out how to make multiple, 
disparate systems able to talk to each other -- hopefully in a way that 
will let the greater world able to scale in aggregate.


Sincerely,

jw