Re: [ogpx] Progress on VW inventory interop in realXtend with Cable Beach

[Meadhbh Siobhan <[e-mail]>]

yup. VWRAP will have asset access. nope. it won't be the existing
cable beach protocol. that being said, i've been looking at cable
beach and chatting with jhurliman about ways to make both our systems
better. there'll probably be more drafts later this year.

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Morgaine
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> The following is background information of relevance to our work in VWRAP.
>
> Jonne Nauha of realXtend recently posted this update concerning their new
> portable inventory system which is based on Cable Beach (small extract
> follows):
>
> Webdav in CableBeach:
>
> First of all the new webdav protocol based inventory system is located
> in Taigas CableBeach (CB) servers. CB InventoryServer has a extension
> that is called WebDavFrontEnd. This is essentially a webserver
> extending the http protocol to cover webdav protocol functionality.
> Mikko Pallari from the project has sent a email in last sprint when we
> were implementing this feature in CB. WebDav frontend uses webadvsharp
> (http://code.google.com/p/webdavsharp/) as a library to handle webdav
> protocol messages, the library has been built in co-operation with
> John Hurliman (CB creator) and the realXtend crew as a side project to
> allow this feature in the CableBeach servers.
>
> Essentially webdav is a way to browse and modify your inventory
> inworld with Naali and outside world with 3rd party webdav clients
> (for example Windows Explorer as a network drive etc.). This will
> bring more flexibility to access your inventory and webdav protocol
> also has built in features like access control that we can use in the
> future ie. sharing inventorty folders to others.
>
>
> Webdav service endpoint discovery from OpenID provider in CableBeach:
>
> I made a new feature in Taiga OpenID provider so you can save your
> default inventory url to your accounts XRD data and this can and will
> be discovered during login process by CableBeach from your openid. If
> XRD data is not stored CableBeach will use its own InventoryServer to
> discover the default inventory url. The aim of all this that you could
> make one Taiga Inventory account, one Taiga OpenID account and set
> your inventory url to your openid. After this you could login with
> openid to any Taiga server and it would always get your inventory
> from where you want so you could move your inventory with you
> from world to another.
>
>
> (My highlighting.)
>
> Jonne's full post is available here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/realxtend-dev/browse_thread/thread/882f817e287baeea
> .
>
> More information on Cable Beach is available here:
> http://code.google.com/p/cablebeach/wiki/CableBeachCore1_0 .
>
> It's worth recalling that John Hurliman is syncing Intel's Cable Beach work
> with VWRAP's and forsees a merging of features, as reported here:
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ogpx/current/msg00338.html  .
>
>
> Morgaine.
>
>
>
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