[Opensim-dev] Global identifiers

[diva at metaverseink.com]

I haven't been following the discussion in VWRAP, and I have no 
intension of starting a political war about who decides what. The goal 
of the discussion here is to decide what makes sense in the context of 
OpenSimulator. Please send a link the VWRAP recommendation, if there is 
one, and we'll get it into this discussion.

Mike Dickson wrote:
> 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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