Re: [vwrap] Relationship between Avatar/Agent and Asset Service?

Izzy, several months ago on this list I was discussing exactly that issue
with Joshua, highlighting how multiple asset services being handled
simultaneously by regions and clients is the scalable way of achieving
virtual tourism of visitors from multiple separate worlds to a central
"tourist world".

Those tourists each have asset services back in their home worlds or on 3rd
party asset services, and on arriving in the tourist zone the region needs
to hand out references to assets in all those remote asset services for the
clients to be able to render all the people present with their correct
avatars and possessions.

So the simple answer is "No, no assumption of single asset service."  That
would not be a scalable design anyway.

Morgaine.

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On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Izzy Alanis <izzyalanis@gmail.com> wrote:

> Starting new thread as the previous one is becoming too unwieldily.
>
> Morgaine said:
> > We either have interoperability between worlds, in which an inhabitant
> can travel from one world to another and take their avatar and/or
> possessions with them, or else we don't have that.  It's black and white,
> and no amount of fudging about "service level interoperability" is going to
> overcome the lack of VW interoperability as a user would understand it.
>
> The world is full of shades of grey.
>
> Is there an assumption that an Avatar has/uses one (and only one?)
> "Asset Service" -- that I have a single repository of possessions to
> take? Can I have and use different asset services? Can I use multiple
> asset services? Can people share?
>
>  - Izzy
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