[ogpx] user agents vs client apps
Katherine Mancuso <kmancuso@gmail.com> Sat, 06 March 2010 22:57 UTC
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Subject: [ogpx] user agents vs client apps
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Hi Carlo and Meadhbh, I believe we may have a conflation between user-as-end user (human who is controlling a program at the moment) and user-as-programmer (who may or may not be directly operating the program) which is an older sense of the word user. I do think it might be useful to use vocabulary that teases out the distinction between user-agent-as-automated-program (bots, data parsers, intermediaries, etc) and user-agent-as-human-computer-interface (what we typically call a viewer) before we deploy the term. I don't know about IETF protocols, but I'd like to point out that the W3C uses user agent to include both your "client applications category" of browsers, media rendering plugins, mobile browsers and other programs that display content directly to humans AND bots, web spiders, and other automated crawlers. I would be curious to have citations for user agent in the IETF literature so we can establish how the term is used for other protocols. I know that SIP refers to both its endpoints as user agents. Anyone? Katherine > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> > To: "Infinity Linden (Meadhbh Hamrick)" <infinity@lindenlab.com> > Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:25:08 +0100 > Subject: Re: [ogpx] Updated deployment and trust draft posted > Sorry for the late reply, but I couldn't find much time lately, > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:15:02AM -0800, Infinity Linden (Meadhbh Hamrick) wrote: >> in a related issue. we use the term "client application" for an app that >> accesses services. the most visible client application is the one that renders >> the virtual world for the user. i think this kind of application is >> traditionally called a "user agent" in other IETF protocols. so... >> >> question : does it make sense to introduce the concept of a "user agent" as the >> client application that is intended to have direct interaction with the user? >> i think it would be good to explain that "clients" or "client applications" do >> not always have to be "user agents." if so, lemme modify the intro doc to >> reflect it. > > I don't think rendering or having interaction with a human has anything to do > with VWRAP, I'd define a "user agent" as "end point"; in theory, such an end > point could be not the application that renders, it could be bot that has > no rendering or human interaction at all. > > I'm ok with still using the word "user" in "user agent", but some clarification > is indeed necessary then. On the other hand, I have no problem understanding > "client application" at all. The use of "user agent" in it's place seems > only confusing to me. > > -- > Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com> -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Katherine Mancuso: crusader of community art, social technology, & disability Research: Center for Assistive Technology & Environmental Access (http://www.catea.org) Georgia Tech, Digital Media (http://dm.gatech.edu) Community: The Vesuvius Group: metaverse community builders (http://www.thevesuviusgroup.com) Gimp Girl Community Liaison/Research Fellow (http://www.gimpgirl.com) Alternate ROOTS: arts*community*activism (http://www.alternateroots.org) Students Working Against Negative Stereotypes of Autism, Georgia Tech. (gtautism@gmail.com) Contact in the web, the metaverse, the world: http://twitter.com/musingvirtual http://muse.dreamwidth.org http://www.linkedin.com/in/kathymancuso SL: Muse Carmona ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- [ogpx] user agents vs client apps Katherine Mancuso
- Re: [ogpx] user agents vs client apps Carlo Wood
- Re: [ogpx] user agents vs client apps SM