Perhaps the ideal fix for stale references is to somehow be able to sanely indicate they have become stale.
Cheers On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 4:43 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > A couple of clarifications: > > 1 - OpenSim is strict about differentiating between local resources and > global resources. For local resources, plain UUIDs are always used, not > global IDs, so not to impact in any way any configurations that ppl may > have. Grid operators have a fair amount of freedom to decide what kind of > UUID they use (in principle, although in practice we use whatever scheme > libomv uses). Global names are only used for "foreign" resources. > > 2 - OpenSim uses DNS resolution aggressively, and I don't think it needs to > reinvent the wheel in that respect. > > 3 - OpenSim probably won't solve the general issue of stale resources. If > someone once was identified by "ibm.com/smith" and then got laid off from > IBM, the virtual identity "ibm.com/smith" will be stale. But references to > it will persist on the Internets... I don't think we'll be able to fix that. > > > Ai Austin wrote: > >> 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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