[sldev] Open Grid Identifier Notation draft proposal

[Felix Duesenburg]

Hm, I'm not sure how this relates to our topic, I'm lacking some 
specific knowledge in that field. I took the question for "why on earth 
are the domain parts reversed there" which keeps popping up in Java 
related forums or lists. Maybe I misunderstood it, then please just 
scratch it.

JB Kraft wrote:
> Hmm, please forgive my thickness, but how does java's convention of 
> organizing name space and a folder structure for source code apply to 
> the existing convention of network discovery and DNS? Solid tools are 
> already out there to utilize the other approach for this exact application.
> 
> JB
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Felix Duesenburg <kfa at gmx.net 
> <mailto:kfa at gmx.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Jason Giglio wrote:
> 
>         Cenji Neutra wrote:
> 
>             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".
> 
> 
>         Why?  What's the point in reversing them?
> 
> 
> 
>     Java does it the same way. The point is that it creates a top-down
>     ordered folder structure.
> 
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