[Opensim-dev] Global identifiers

[James Stallings II]

I believe the mechanism here is not so much one of verifying a person is who
they say they are, as it is certifying that a certain avatar can be placed
at the point of her original login by the user server referenced in the URI.

I also suspect the the UUID referenced is the URI used by that avatar on
that grid.

Thanks and cheers
James

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:20 PM, <mysticaldemina at xrgrid.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Ai Austin
> Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 4:59 PM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> 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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