Am Monday 23 August 2010 schrieb Yoz Grahame: > On 23 August 2010 11:51, Joel Foner <joel.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As Josh and others have said, one of the things we'd need is a > > unique > > > >> secret account identifier. Unfortunately the only existing > >> account datum which might work here is email address, and > >> that's not unique, though we're starting to think that it > >> really should be > > > > Just a quick note... email addresses change fairly regularly. > > Basing the permanent unique account identifier on a transient > > token seems bound to create problems in the longer term due to > > user movements from one email address to another, and old > > addresses become invalid and even forgotten by users. > > Many other services seem to manage it just fine. But this is the > kind of devil in the details that makes it require some more > thought. I'm sure we'd have some kind of internal account ID (in a > similar vein to agent ID) to which everything's tied, so that > email changes would have minimal administrative update cost, and > we'd keep a history of all such changes. That's *if* this is the > route we take, if and when we do this work. > > -- Yoz
one additional field in the avatar's data... "parent UUID"... the main avi would have NULL_KEY in there, alts would have the UUID of the "master account". users would always log in with the login account, and after you log in but before you actually connect to the grid you'd get a popup with a list of your avatars to select from, and a button for "create new avatar". During rollout each avatar would be set up as a master avatar (parent avi = NULL_KEY), and on the website you could link your alts to your main account IF YOU SO DESIRE. This relation would/should not be visible for anyone else but the avatars in question, of course. each avatar could have a separate email address configured for IM to email, changeable in preferences and the website. newsletters and the likes would _only_ be delivered to "master accounts"... I believe that would cut the sheer volume of email traffic coming out of the lab down to 30% if not less (not counting IM to email). This relation would/should not be visible for anyone else but the avatars in question, of course. it would also open a way towards shared inventories (which might actually require an additional boolean in every asset... a permission bit that a creator could set, "allow to share with your alts" or such). it would also allow xstreet purchases to be delivered to your alt (making freebies pseudo-giftable). bye, LC _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
