Hello OAuth seems to provide OpenSimulator server side authentication and authorisation needs. If you are interested in this area please read this page and especially the "What is it for"-chapter:
http://oauth.net/about/ "Is OAuth a New Concept?"-chapter is a good read as well. Essentially it looks like a way to pass capabilities to servers. For example you might give opensim region limited access to your inventory. More details can be found from their community wiki: http://wiki.oauth.net/ Does anyone know other specifications for service level authentication and authorisation (as opposed to browser and user level authentication like OpenID and SAML)? As you can see from the wiki front page for example google offers standard oauth api. I would like to use my google identity in OpenSim as soon as possible :). Someone might want to use AOL, Flickr, Amazon, yahoo or facebook which are already supported. The big difference is here that you need not pass your secrect password to opensim server or go to openid login page at the provider. Idealistviewer could handle authentication with google and pass the capability tokens to region when connecting to it. If you want to help Metaverse be realised in shortest possible time please study OAuth and alternative approaches if such exist. I believe this area needs some OpenSim community focus to get it properly sorted for next technology leap. I hear a new version of CableBeach is coming out and it would be great to have standards compliant solution in capabilities area. By standards compliant I mean a solution which can hook to major identity provider players as of now. The claim of this post is that it is already possible with OAuth specification which has been written by experts of the area. If all those major players are supporting OAuth I think it is a strong signal that the technology is good and mature. My understanding is that it is very well compliant with OpenSim needs as well. -tommi _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
