We don need no stinkin' accounts. We don't really need accounts, so we can do away with them. Though obviously since SledjHamr is designed to be a flexible set of tools rather than one big take it or leave it system, people can use what ever accounts system they need for their purposes. SledjHamr not only doesn't impose an accounts system, we eliminate the need for one in the general case. So we don't have to write one. B-) When a user fires up the extantz client for the first time, it can use their local computer account name as the users name (I think most operating systems make you create one when you install them). Extantz could also do a reverse DNS lookup on the computers IP, and likely end up with an ISPs dynamic IP reverse mapping, or maybe a real domain name. Extantz then tries to connect to a love server running on the same computer, or starts one if it can't find one. This local love server by default runs a small grid, with maybe a nice little cottage, and a star gate. This is the users home, they can do what ever they like with it. The star gate works similar to current OpenSim hypergates, linking to external grids and allowing HyperGrid access to them. Since the user already has a local name and domain name, with the local love server acting as the users home HyperGrid server, they are good to go visit other grids. No real in world account need ever be created. The drawback is that the virtual worlds will be filled with lots of root@123_231.bigisp-dyn.com users. Naturally it should be simple for users to change the default name to anything they want.