[Opensim-dev] Global identifiers

[Meadhbh Hamrick]

okay. good we're not starting a political war.

VWRAP doesn't have a recommendation for entities other than "it's a
URI, most likely a HTTP(S) URL that has a resource at the end of it."

in the past we referred to them as "region capabilities," but that's
not especially accurate. the "region endpoint" (again with the not
especially good name) are supposed to be public and long lived, two
things that don't really mesh well with the concept of a capability.

if you're really tied to the idea of <identifier>@<domain>, i'm
thinking of investigating webfinger for something similar in a vwrap
extension.

but if you went with

http://myworld.com:8002/7c4450fc-aeaf-468d-b238-d52955dc868b

or

http://myworld.com:8002/user/7c4450fc-aeaf-468d-b238-d52955dc868b

it would be reasonably similar to what we're doing over in VWRAP.

-cheers
-meadhbh
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On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 12:21 PM,  <diva at metaverseink.com> wrote:
> 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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