How what/will/is LL and RRR solution to the “transfer” of IP from the main grid to the Immersive Workspace(Tm) running on second grid technology.

We all understood the “issues” of “placing IP” on the LL grid known as Second Life for it’s users….but technologies exist to remove content from the SL “3 cent to a dollar” grid, and “place it unknowingly” to the “one dollar equals one dollar grid” for commercial usage by corporations doing dollar/ for dollar business.?

lets think a little ahead.;) this is something sure to bite the “laboratory” back on the butt very soon unless proper and ethical not to mention legal solutions are put in place. Lets chat about permissions, licenses, and seperate- private- grids- shall we?

or is that secret too?.;)

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Absolutely correct on all points Dusan, at least from my experience – which is with a separate “estate” completely off the LL grid on a private server (not RRR project or IBM for that matter).

This will allow my organization (a non profit) to run a business without naked newcomers, without griefing, without neighbors setting up nextdoor with sights we aren’t interested in seeing. More importantly, without rolling restarts, without four hour shutdowns, without arbitrary changes that devalue my property or cause my costs to rise.

I have nine sims under development for less that the cost of a single LL island. Assets in SL proper can be transferred over only selectively, but the terraforming and building functions are the same as in SL proper, so most anything that you want to have can be built if you have some basic skills.

We encourage our clientele and staff to use the Main Grid, and believe that immersive experience in SL will add to the “reality” of the usage on our GIaB (Grid in a Box), but when its time for staff meetings, or delivering client services, it is great to know we can do it in a much more controlled and stable environment.

I think there is plenty of room for both types of platforms, and if LL really hopes to monetize the Immersive Workspaces project, they should know that their clientele may often start as “ordinary” citizens of Second Life (I sure did!). Neglecting the original will surely strangle an important pipeline to this new level of participation!

Regarding your questions, I’d have to absolutely confirm, but I’m under the following impression:

- The service level agreement is different from the main Grid

- Invoicing is not by Linden Lab

- Customer support is on a per contract basis, but I’m under the impression that RRR offers business hours support which, well, is when their customers are doing business. I think it’s a good question for RRR – does Linden Lab pick up “support spillover”.

- I’m not sure about the asset server. But these sims run separate from the main grid – they don’t show up in search or on the map, the avatar and inventory is not connected to the main grid, etc. They are NOT part of SL. So, for security, my impression is, and based on what Zha said, you can’t cam to them, you can’t find them, you can’t even communicate with the avatars. (And the avatars can’t come to mainland either).

If I had to describe it, I’d hypothesize that the Immersive Workspaces are a completely separate ‘rack’, or perhaps even hosted client-side in some cases (or could be). They are stand-alone boxes, protected by a firewall, and not connected to any of the SL that you and I might know.

- References available on request LOL

Justin commented on the brands and their “experiments” in SL. I’ll post the full interview later today and let his words speak for themselves.

Actually you can do a lot better with other options. Or just wait it out until the Sun Wonderland offering is being hosted.

As an enterprise buyer of a private grid solution you would need to look at–

* Service level agreement — Linden offers nothing

* Invoicing — Linden offers nothing

* Customer support — I assume RRR would provide this, but how much and is it 24/7?

* Security — maybe a “private” grid but is it a private asset server? Who can cam into the sims? What about encryption?

* References — is anyone other than Linden and RRR using this offering and is satisfied?

Looks like more of the same hype and vaporware that got SL onto the cover of Newsweek (twice). I hope at least enterprise buyers are more experienced in purchasing mission critical software solutions and won’t be herded to slaughter like the brand customers were.

That would sum up my main concern with this. Its not that pushing enterprise use will hurt the grid, but it certainly looks to me like LL has had its eye primarily on that ball for the last year, and is letting the other one drop.

Call me regressive, but I’d like to see a focus on Second Life as an entertainment platform.