Re: [ogpx] A Review of Multi-Domain Use Cases [Was: Re: OpenID and OGP : beginning the discussion ...]

Mike Dickson wrote:
> I have to agree with Carlo on this.  This is a case where virtual life
> needs to model real life.  Lots of people with the same name in the
> world.  The protocol needs to support some other way to uniquely
> identify a "user" other than FN/LN. 

I would also go further and say that it would be great to reuse
identities on non-3D social networks. As we see with OpenID this usually
is done via URLs (like myspace.com/mrtopf and now also
facebook.com/mrtopf) and I don't see why this shouldn't be used here as
well.
firstname/lastname should be provided as well of course (e.g. via
reading it over an OpenSocial REST API) but the real identity is then
defined via the URL. I am not sure where to display it though, if
directly over an avatar or inside the profile page but that needs some
experimentation I guess. At least some means need to be given to find
out which person it actually is.

-- Christian

> When crossing into a new region it seems highly possible that a region
> owner may want to require a re-authentication also. 
> 
> I'm not suggesting a solution becaus this isn't my personal area of
> expertise.  Simply stating I see the problem and agree a good solution
> needs to be found. 
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 11:45 +0000, Carlo Wood wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 04:13:08AM -0700, Meadhbh Siobhan wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Carlo Wood<carlo@alinoe.com> wrote:
>>> as mentioned in the draft, deployers MAY choose to identify users via
>>> account ids rather than first+last.
>> But that is local to the deployers.
>>
>> What is used to ID an agent in the server-server protocol
>> when a user walks from one region into another, or teleports
>> to a different region?
>>
>> Firstname Lastname should be merely payload, not interesting
>> to the servers, not being used for anything except passing
>> it on the the viewers so they can use it to put in the tags.
>>
>> There must be some other string, that is globally unique,
>> that is used to ID the agent. I was missing that string
>> in the first post that started this.
>>
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