Ilan, I keep wondering if there isn't a market for your cloud-based database services for private label grids? The logical extension of that idea is virtual content would be secure as it moves between grids that use the same service. No grid would have control of the data other than Kitely - assuming they provided such a service - and be held responsible for any breach of trust. To my mind a centralized cloud asset service like that would give the kind of security of a walled garden while not in itself providing the actual grid simulators (this is pretty much what SpotON3D is aiming at only they want to monopolize the service and control the grids too which amounts to a close Metaverse subject to their rules and charges). I think the asset service can form a business in itself which Linden Labs could have set up long ago and be profiting from today. But whatever...
Personally, I would be more than willing to pay top money for a secure universal asset service where goods can flow between my grid and others on the same asset service including Kitely.
Seriously, I think the secure movement of virtual content is now more important than the actual movement of the avatars on which it depends. Avatars need reasons to travel like events to attend, places to explore and other things like roleplay and shopping but the power of Second Life which the open Metaverse still lacks in any semi-secure form is a vibrant economy and trade in virtual content. From all my experience over the past five years in Opensim worlds I can not believe the open Metaverse will grow significantly without a workable solution to secure content storage across many grids.
