[Opensim-dev] Global identifiers

[Robert A. Knop Jr.]

Or, duh.  I feel stupid re: my last message.  I was seeing a tree, not a
forest.

I don't think there's much of a need to tie it to a specific domain, for
the same reason that URIs themselves aren't independent of domain.
Anybody can register a DNS domain, and move it as necessary if they
move.  Once somebody gets "serious" (e.g. when Google stopped being an
address somewhere at stanford.edu and started being at google.com), they
will register their own domain, and thereafter can point it to the IP
address as necessary.

By using Internet URIs, OpenSim would take advantage of all these sorts
of solutions that the DNS system itself already solves.  No need to try
and layer something on top of that to re-solve the same thing.

-- 
--Rob Knop
  E-mail:    rknop at pobox.com
  Home Page: http://www.pobox.com/~rknop/
  Blog:      http://scientopia.org/blogs/galacticinteractions/
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