[Opensim-dev] Global identifiers

[James Stallings II]

Bravo, this conversation is really heading in a good direction, tangents and
all.

FWIW I think Mel holds the higher technical ground to answer Diva's
questions most completely (with nods to Dahlia and others), and I think her
suggestion perhaps presents the best solution to the problem of (more or
less) universal resource identification: )

Cheers,
James/Hiro
SimHost.com

On Aug 29, 2010 6:44 AM, "Melanie" <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:

We should.

Also, we should use extra info in the URI. Reson:

http://www.avination.net:8004/user/44626b40-13d6-4817-b61b-de5df7b5e7e8

The above is totally meaningless. It can't be used to do anything
with unless www.avination.net exists and points to a gatekeeper.

However,

http://www.avination.net/user/44626b40-13d6-4817-b61b-de5df7b5e7e8/Melanie+Milland

makes more sense here.

The URI itself provides a "Display name" that the resolver at that
URL can treat as extra path info and ignore, if it chooses.

This would allow us to create a temporary memory cache record of the
UUID -> name mapping that would let us display a prim creator
without a lookup, which is a potentially frequent process.

The sim can take the URL at face value and diassemble it, using
44626b40-13d6-4817-b61b-de5df7b5e7e8 -> "Melanie
Milland at www.avination.net" for the cache and returning that to the
viewer as the creator, all without a lookup.

While this doesn't prevent verification of stale URI's from failing,
it does allow to display a meaningful text if that happens.

Melanie

diva at metaverseink.com wrote: > Looks like ppl are reading more into this
discussion than I intended...
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