Re: [mmox] Permissions

[Jon Watte <[e-mail]>]

Jesrad wrote:
>> soccer ball. My argument is simply against the idea that a single client
>> connecting to two separate virutal world servers could provide a usefully
>> consistent view of a virtual world simulation.
>>     
>
> Well, that's precisely the model Solipsis is based on, and it seems to
> give a reasonably consistent view. The node with the soccer ball can
> decide to let others know about it or not, and that makes little
> difference for the rest of the world. In this model you're free to
>   

In the general case, letting arbitrary, untrusted clients introduce 
content into a virtual world is not desirable. It would actually leave 
organizational users open to various kinds of discrimination and 
harassment lawsuits.

However, if for Sollipsis you consider each "peer" as being a "server" 
in the proposal I've suggested (which, btw, was explicitly called out in 
the keynote slides for last year's IEEE MMVE), then it is the same 
model. I would expect that you could actually quite easily implement the 
proposed interoperability model into Sollipsis and interoperate with any 
other peer or server that wanted to interoperate with you.

Sincerely,

jw