Re: [ogpx] VWRAP Draft Charter - 2009 09 01

[Joshua Bell <[e-mail]>]

Cool, thanks for the clarification. Yeah... I think if you take GridServer
out of that mix you'd get something conceptually equivalent to the AD.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Charles Krinke <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Well, no, thats not quite how OpenSim works.
>
> A standalone OpenSim region with no grid services is probably loosely
> equivalent to no AD and I think that was the mode in which the tests were
> performed with the IBM OpenSim region and OGP a year or so ago.
>
> An OpenSim region running in grid mode is connected to a number of servers
> that connect the grid together. These are a UserServer, GridServer,
> Asset/InventoryServer and MessagingServer. So these are *more or less*
> equivalent to AD notions.
>
> Charles
>
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> *From:* Joshua Bell <[e-mail]>
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> *Subject:* Re: [ogpx] VWRAP Draft Charter - 2009 09 01
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> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Morgaine <[e-mail]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Your next step is to realize that, for two structurally identical worlds,
>> if the seat of policy of one lies in its AD, then the seat of policy of the
>> other also lies in its AD.  Therefore your statement needs to be modified to
>> the following:
>>
>> IMHO, it should be apparent that both the AD of the source world and the
>> RD and AD of the destination world all need to make policy decisions.
>>
>>
> I don't agree with this at all.
>
> A VW service provider could operate a region domain with no agent domain. I
> believe this is VERY LOOSELY equivalent to running an OpenSim instance in
> Grid mode today (but I can't state that definitively) the person running the
> sim is basically running just the region, and relying on someone else's
> agent domain (agent-centric services).
>
> Similarly, BigGiantCo could operate an agent domain for their employs (as a
> bolt-on to their enterprise LDAP server, say) with no region domain.
>
> A BigGiantCo employee can visit the RD-only VW - the AD talks to the RD to
> place the agent in a region. There aren't necessarily any other RDs or ADs
> involved at all. This is where protocol and policy come into play - the AD
> needs to communicate with and trust the RD and vice versa (even if that's
> nil-trust).
>
>