WonderDAC: An Implementation of Discretionary Access Controls within the Project Wonderland CVE

摘要: Both proprietary and open source collaborative virtual environments (CVEs) offer extensive means for social, scientific, and commercial collaboration. To safeguard the objects and activities that comprise these virtual worlds, we have proposed, elsewhere, an in-world discretionary access control (DAC) system called WonderDAC. The simplicity and role-based nature of this system have already been demonstrated through a limited prototype. In this paper, we continue our work by expanding upon the WonderDAC prototype to build a more complete and functional DAC solution. Although integrated with the Project Wonderland CVE, WonderDAC’s concepts and design could be adapted to any similar CVE platform.