Re: [ogpx] URI schema for virtual world locations?

[Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 07:34:00AM -0500, Kari Lippert wrote:
> Here's a start....
> 
> To design this, the better question to ask is what is required to uniquely
> location a point in a virtual world? The information can always be encoded with
> more user-friendly names/references as required.
> 
> Name of World
> Server
> Instance
> Region
> x-coordinate
> y-coordinate
> z-coordinate

There are going to be a lot of "worlds" (an arbitrary number).
The best way to easily garantee uniqueness is to use some domainname
that is associated with that world, ie, "example-world.com".
I think that this should (indeed) be the first part of the URI,
or rather, that the first part of the URI should be world-unique.
In order not to confuse the domainname with any other service
of that domain, the URI should have a leading part that specifies
what it is, hence:

vwrap://example-world.com/...whateverelse...

Also, "Server" and "Instance" would be rather optional, since they
do not exist in the virtual world. I suppose it would be better
to put such things in the hostname, ie:

vwrap://server1-instance2.example-world.com/region/x/y/z

-- 
Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>