Re: [ogpx] An example to show the problems with defining an OGPX/VWRAP virtual world

[Joshua Bell <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Carlo Wood <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 03:26:58PM +0100, Morgaine wrote:
> > Fortunately, as David Levine has said a few times, trust agreement
> technology
> > does not preclude nil trust, so we can work with this.  However, it will
> be
> > extremely important to ensure that the nil trust mechanism is actually
> catered
> > for in practice in VWRAP, rather than just in theory.
>
> +1
>
>
+1 as well. As Morgaine pointed out, this little thing called "the Web"
seems to have caught on due to this stance. :)

I would caution that Virtual Worlds with portable, persistent identity don't
have it quite so easy as the Web since the user is an active participant
from the get-go (your avatar's identity gets sent to places you visit)
rather than a passive consumer of data. The Web is late to the game in
tackling that with efforts such as OpenID and OAuth, and even venerable
e-mail strains under not having a well established concept of trust (the
gaping void between easy/spam and onerous/PKI, sprinkled with efforts like
SPF). We must tackle this from the start.

But again, +1.