[sldev] Open Grid Identifier Notation draft proposal

[JB Kraft]

Excellent notion. Is this discussion to take place here or elsewhere?
Apologies if this is out of place here but...

Has the notion of a prefix or transport been discussed rather then a name
reversal? Is is not clear to me the benefit of the name reversal.

Given the convention of the prefix 'www' indicating the world wide web, and
in the spirit of that naming convention attempting to look forward to other
network notions, has a prefix of 'grid' or 'mv' (metaverse) or something
like that been considered?

'grid.angi.secondlife.com' or 'mv.agni.secondlife.com'

or even more simply the transport mechanism?

'grid://agni.secondlife.com' or 'mv://agni.secondlife.com'

It seems to me that the current push to utilize HTTP for services, the
plethora of software that understands this domain ordering and the ability
to capitalize on existing DNS services would make this much easier then
re-writing those things to accomodate this convention.

Please let me know if this is out of place here and where previous
discussion might be reviewed and future discourse might be taken up.

regards
JB

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Cenji Neutra <cenji.neutra at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Open Grid Identifier Notation - Proposal draft 1
>
> As part of some internal software development, we've had a need for a
> generic identification scheme for 'grids' and their major components.
> Rather than invent something behind closed-doors with high probability
> that something similar will be needed and re-invented by the VW
> community in the near future, we decided to come up with a proposal
> for open discussion.
> The 'grid identifier' notation proposed is fairly simple and takes
> into consideration the work of the AWG, the SLGOGP draft and 'current
> practice'.
>
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Grid_Identifiers_Spec
>
> In short, we're proposing using a domain-name-like system for
> identifiers, but with the components reversed so as not to have them
> confused with DNS domain names.  For example, "com.secondlife.agni"
> could be the identifier for the SL main grid.  There are also specific
> identifier types for VW components, such as SLGOGP's "agent domains"
> and "region domains".
>
> The proposal doesn't dictate how identifiers might be used or
> how/where they're managed.  It would be up to other parties to build
> lookup, discovery and other services utilizing them (which can be the
> subject of future independent proposals).
>
> Feedback and criticism welcomed and appreciated.
>
> -Cenji Neutra
>
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