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, <[email protected]> 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: [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 > -- =================================== http://osgrid.org http://twitter.com/jstallings2 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/770/a49
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