[Opensim-dev] Global identifiers

[mysticaldemina at xrgrid.com]

May be good to share what your use case is.  As universal are you suggesting
an identifier that separate, potentially un-trusted domains, would use to
identify the same person?

Is so I don't think you can do that with two parties, you need at least one
more party to validate that they are the same person, like how we do with
SSL certificates, or with some kind of authentication, like you send me an
email address which gets me to a profile, but I still need to enter in a
password or something to get access to that profile.

M.

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[mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Ai Austin
Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 4:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] Global identifiers

diva 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:
>... Thoughts?


A couple of thoughts and observations Diva...

Could the taxonomy of "types" you use cause problems if the chosen 
1-1 mapping for a UUID is not felt to work well i future.

"user" is also perhaps a different notion to a specific "avatar"

It would be nice if any UUID in a URI you use can be resolved (e.g. 
to the avatar name) by any host that has the mapping (like the 
distributed nature of DNS works), so its not dependent on the host 
continuing to exist, or to be up at the time information on the 
avatar is sought.

AS an example, we have shifted our data bases between machines and 
have done so 3 or 4 times since we started running OpenSim, carrying 
the UUIDs of avatars (and the UIIDs of regions we use) forwards to 
the new data bases.

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