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Originally Posted by JoshUA Nightshade  Well I agree with you to a certain extent, but there are already systems that operate across platforms. I can talk to myspace IM contacts through Skype, despite neither platform owning the other, using my Skype ID. I can talk to people on hotmail using my yahoo login. I can use my yahoo login across several sites and properties whether owned by yahoo or not. Trillian's objective is to let you use one identity to manage contacts on five or six different networks. . |
But what you're doing there is actually NOT using one identity: you're using several identities, in a way which is (relatively) transparent to you as a user. You could conceivably build a system which did that for virtual worlds. So, for example, you cross from one sim to another, and the sim asks your client "who are you on this sim?" Your client replies, and your avatar changes to the identity you have on that sim.
But there's no real possibility in that system for your "physical" identity or your inventory to remain consistent across sims, unless as part of the handover process your entire asset inventory was copied over between servers. That, of course, basically means that all items effectively become full permissions at all times - you are giving the owner of each sim a copy of everything you own. Also, it would make it very simply to "clone" avatars, including their name and identity, and make it impossible to ensure that "Joshua Nightshade" was really you.