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

I agree and I see this as a precursor discussion for things that must be
included in the information model!

Kari

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Richard L. Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com> wrote:

> I generally view URI schemes as subservient to protocols: The URI specifies
> what server you talk to and what you send it.  For example, <
> http://example.com/foo> tells you to send a request to example.com with
> "/foo" as the request URI.  So I would think that the elements of the URI
> would come out of the fields that we end up having in the protocol, rather
> than some information model that we come up with specifically for the URI.
>
> --Richard
>
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Suzy Deffeyes wrote:
>
>
> Is it overly confusing to allow specifying  look-at point? That would allow
> you to specify a link to a location that orients the user looking in the
> correct direction?
>
> The old OGP spec for rez_avatar/place allows it (
> http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OGP_Teleport#POST_Interface ), however, I
> have not implemented it in the viewer in any way, shape, or form.
>
> Suzy Deffeyes/Pixel Gausman
> IBM
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Kari Lippert <kari.lippert@gmail.com>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
>>
>> IMHO I think that would cover it all - but I am not
>> intimately familiar with the inner workings of all virtual worlds.
>>
>> Kari
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Hurliman, John <john.hurliman@intel.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  I’ve seen a few places in the I-Ds and OGP wiki documents that refer to
>>> a URI schema for a location in a virtual world (home location, requested
>>> login location, etc). Has this been defined or discussed yet? I see the
>>> SLURL format of:
>>>
>>>
>>> secondlife://region%20name/x/y/z
>>>
>>>
>>> How would this change to accommodate a location in any region domain?
>>>
>>>
>>> John
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