OK, this is going to seem a little like semantics but I think we’re confusing “The Grid” with the “grids”.

Let me put it this way:

- There is one “Grid” – a collection of services (servers, asset servers, etc.)

- This single Grid is expressed visually as a map

- HOWEVER, there is also the Main Grid and the Teen Grid. These are defined by the sub-routines built into the code that runs the services.

Currently, access to the servers (land), assets (asset server), identity information is all ONE THING, but it is divided via sub-routine between Teen Grid and Main Grid.

Philip made it quite clear at SLCC that the issue with supporting the Teen Grid wasn’t the support staff etc., but rather that because of the sub-routines built into the code that runs all of the services, every time there is a change in code, they need to make sure the sub-routines still work.

Therefore, there are two grids within one larger cluster of services, services, infrastructure, etc. which are defined by the sub-routines that are run which determine whether a person, asset or server is MG or TG.

By saying that they will move the TG to the MG, what I mean is that they will eliminate these sub-routines. There will be one Grid and they will push the definition of “Teen Area” to estate-level commands and changes to the Viewer (if required by educators in order to filter adult vs other content).

YES, the Teen Grid always ran on the same servers and infrastructure – but the SUB-ROUTINES within those servers and infrastructure defined TG vs MG.

I am proposing they will remove those sub-routines and simplify things by allowing schools to have their own version of the RegAPI through which the avatars that are created will be automatically flagged as being “pinned to an estate”.

Not sure if that makes sense and I’m sure it might seem like semantics, but Tateru’s comment about how the teens could hack the recognition of assets shows, if nothing else, that the sub-routines probably weren’t the way to go in the first place and became very expensive to maintain.

So, basically the teens are currently locked down to a specific PG estate, which is then rendered undetectable to everyone else by the use of mighty and unreliable software magicks.

They do share the same asset and inventory systems and so forth (being the same grid and all), and it’s possible to move content back and forth. There’s a trick teen users use when they want to obtain content from the main-grid that convinces the grid to transfer content into their estate.

That’s the status-quo at present.