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: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ai Austin Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2010 4:59 PM To: [email protected] 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. _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev _______________________________________________ Opensim-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-dev
