Re: [ogpx] Feedback to draft-hamrick-vwrap-authentication-00.txt

[Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 08:39:32PM +0000, Morgaine wrote:
> The {first_name} + {last_name} concept has no place in VWRAP as a requirement
> anyway.  That's a particular property of Second Life.

+1

Meadhbh wrote me back in private (something I don't understand, why
not use this list?) that the reason for using first + last name
is to accommodate existing implementations like Second Life and
Opensim.

I think that is not a valid agrument. We're designing a standard
here, and there is no place for legacy in a new standard. I already
pointed out in my first post that it is extremely simple to switch
to a single Agent Identifier string anyway (just catenate first and
last with a space in between).

What also worries me in this is that apparently the current
Second Life protocol is considered to be canonical VWRAP, and
it is apparently not possible to define a VWRAP that doesn't
match the current existing protocol used by Linden Lab.

If Linden Lab thinks that it's hard to switch such things
(from First + Last to a single AgentIdentifier), then I'd
like to stress again the importance of protocol negotiation!!!

-- 
Carlo Wood <[e-mail]>

PS With protocol negotiation being a standard part of every
   VWRAP connection, it would be the simplest of tasks
   to switch from First+Last to VWRAP, even allowing
   a few years for viewers to switch (before dropping
   support for the legacy login).