Re: [mmox] OGP scalability concerns

[Morgaine <[e-mail]>]

John and Christian together have nailed a great candidate for the first step
in the process of interoperation, I believe.  Such initial unauthenticated
service discovery would provide the opportunity for choice that leads to
decoupling of services, whereas asking a bundling-prone VW provider for
options is predestined to offer you very little real choice.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Christian Scholz <[e-mail]> wrote:

Hurliman, John schrieb:
>
>> I understand this. If you are Linden Lab and you are already in the
>> business of running lots of independent services (content hosting,
>> identity storage and authorization, instant messaging, inventory
>> servers, simulators, etc) then it makes sense to lump every service
>> you want to provide under one trust domain. Simulation can be a
>> different domain so third party simulators like OpenSim can run under a
>> separate trust domain and optionally connect to the aggregate Linden Lab
>> service cloud. Tada! You have OGP. It's a great business model.  Unless you
>> are any company *except* Linden Lab and you want to provide a service such
>> as content hosting without becoming a full virtual world service provider.
>>
>
> It also reminds me of Facebook and Facebook connect where you also only get
> all or nothing. Moreover FB also defines who actually has access to _your_
> data (e.g. Google has not). Nevertheless other players such as MySpace or
> Yahoo (and others) are becoming more open in a per-service level, e.g.
> providing OAuth based access to profile or friends data.
>
> What's missing there is still some way to list all of your services
> together and to find out which services a site provides. But there is work
> going on to solve these problems. I guess a good resource is Eran's blog
> (which I also should monitor more closely as a lot has happened there since
> I last looked, namely thoughts about delegated authorization as we might
> need it and XRD vs. XRDS):
>
>
> <http://www.hueniverse.com>

Those really are excellent points.


Morgaine.