[vos-d] avatars anyone?

[Peter Amstutz]

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On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Reed Hedges wrote:

> I still think "end-to-end" is important both as a philosophy and as a
> technical option, and should still be somehow supported.  But we also
> need to have hosted avatars available for most cases.  If we can write
> TerAngreal's code to "get it right" supporting both cases (including a
> "mix" of the two?), then that could be moved up into the library for
> other programs to use as the standard procedure.

Yes, I agree.  What we should do is start to document what the conventions 
are going to be for vobject layout on world servers.  This would include 
standard places to look for the home world object (currently /world), 
creating and uploading transient avatars, conventions for establishing 
permanent user accounts and logging in with those, and what fallbacks to 
use when the previous options are not available.

> It sounds like the main holes are the factory not setting up an
> identity[VOS Identity metaojbect]-based access control for the
> requesting client, and the local-object fallback for avatar component
> properties also making poor assumptions?

We need to formally document and standarize what the supported modes for 
joining a world are going to be.  A lot of stuff is still ad hoc because 
we don't know what the right solution is, once we've had some experience 
to guide the design then we can decide to either change it or formalize 
it.

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