[vos-d] status and scheming

[S Mattison]

On 12/8/06, Karsten Otto <otto at inf.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>
> Ok, now I get it... so when someone comes to your server, or is
> invited to it, that person gets a private overlay > that allows changing some object but not others?


Right. And the reason I chose the word 'overlay' is that they could engage
their own set of subroutines, in a sort of 'minigame', take out a rocket
launcher and start blowing things up... But you wouldn't see it if they
didn't have the permissions to blow up your world in that way. Certainly,
they would be aware that they weren't actually blowing up your world, but
it's a neat idea, the ability to have "parallel virtual realities" based on
permission sets.

VOS has something similar, although this mechanism is rarely used at
> the moment. You can "log in" to a site to get an "identity", and
> certain vobjects may have access control lists that refer to known
> identities.


I haven't seen very much of these 'special features' at all then! I think
the offline walkthrough for VOS should perhaps be a bit more detailed (with
the re-integrated ability to move objects around, only in your own offline
world?), and maybe continue once you login to the interreality server as
well.

I.e., your overlays seem to be more like capabilities, VOS identities
> + ACLs are similar to the traditional object-based UNIX access
> control. If so, I tend to agree with you - a capabilities-based
> access control is propably more suited for highly frequented worlds
> that do not know every individual user.


That's how I intended it at least. Good to know there's already something
out there. =)
Great minds think alike, eh?

Basically yes, though I dont't think Ter'angreal can handle anyting
> else than sector (world) links right now. I know it cannot switch
> from vip to vop protocol on the fly :-(


Well, I wouldn't expect a built-in html renderer, but maybe a shell command
to call up the url?
Ahh, ShellExecute() in the Win32 API. That should bring up URLs as well.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238245
(Unfortunately, you'd have to parse vip:// seperately, unless you register
the Ter'Angreal as the "default VIP browser"... But then you'd have to teach
T'A to field it's own links, rather than opening a seperate process.)

There really should be more VOS worlds out there...


I'll see what I can do. ;)
-- 
Steven Mattison - CTI Services Database Administrator
"If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both."
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