distributed MUDs

[Kragen]

I think it would be interesting to build a distributed MUD or MOO?  A
MOO I think I understand well enough to build; each object would simply
live on a particular machine, as part of a particular MOO repository.
Users could run their own MOO repositories on their own machines.
Repositories could connect to one another over the Net and exchange verb
invocations.

Sometimes they won't be able to reach each other.  At these times,
objects in those repositories will be unable to interact.  This could
be a little bizarre.

However, this would avoid the currently-necessary restrictions most
MOOs have on membership, programming, etc.

For security, some objects would not be accessible to certain other
objects, as a form of mandatory access controls; they would only be
accessible to certain relatively "trusted" objects.

-- 
<kragen@pobox.com>       Kragen Sitaker     <http://www.pobox.com/~kragen/>
A well designed system must take people into account.  . . .  It's hard to
build a system that provides strong authentication on top of systems that
can be penetrated by knowing someone's mother's maiden name.  -- Schneier