[Opensim-dev] Global identifiers

[Mike Dickson]

This has been widely discussed on the VWRAP list. Perhaps a reference to
that would be in order.

Mike

On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 18:30 +0000, diva at metaverseink.com wrote:
> Yes.
> Hence, it's an important design decision.
> 
> James Stallings II wrote:
> > Question:
> > 
> > Will this provide the groundwork for global content 
> > identification/creator attribution?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > James
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 1:26 PM, <diva at metaverseink.com 
> > <mailto:diva at metaverseink.com>> wrote:
> > 
> >     I'm about to introduce global identifiers, so that I can make
> >     friends and IM work on the hypergrid, and would like feedback on the
> >     best form of these identifiers. Here are some options:
> > 
> >     http://myworld.com:8002/7c4450fc-aeaf-468d-b238-d52955dc868b
> > 
> >     myworld.com:8002/7c4450fc-aeaf-468d-b238-d52955dc868b
> >     <http://myworld.com:8002/7c4450fc-aeaf-468d-b238-d52955dc868b>
> > 
> >     http://myworld.com:8002/user/7c4450fc-aeaf-468d-b238-d52955dc868b
> > 
> >     7c4450fc-aeaf-468d-b238-d52955dc868b at myworld.com:8002
> >     <http://7c4450fc-aeaf-468d-b238-d52955dc868b@myworld.com:8002>
> > 
> >     ...
> > 
> >     In this particular case (for friends and IM) we're dealing with user
> >     accounts, but the issue is broader than that. Whatever form we
> >     choose should be applicable to all sorts of resources.
> > 
> >     My preference is to use a URI, according to the spec of URIs
> >     (http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/uri-spec.html). The question is:
> >     should we add additional specifications on these URIs? Like using
> >     the path /user/ for user accounts, etc.
> > 
> >     Thoughts?
> > 
> >     Thanks.
> >     Diva / Crista
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