Re: [vwrap] Removing first name / last name assumptions?

Names are a small thing but they are immensely complicated (and important.)

Morgaine wrote:
> Thanks for confirming that, Joshua!
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> The nature of the agent field is a small thing, but progress has been 
> made. :-)
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> Morgaine.
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> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Joshua Bell <josh@lindenlab.com 
> <mailto:josh@lindenlab.com>> wrote:
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>     Speaking for Linden:
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>     (1) For the purposes of VWRAP interop, it is acceptable to us to
>     assume that a human readable agent identifier ("name") for Second
>     Life can be coerced to and from a single string field. Today, SL
>     firstname/lastname pairs are constrained to a subset of ASCII that
>     disallows characters such as periods and spaces. Therefore, as has
>     been mentioned, it is possible today to unambiguously encode an SL
>     name as (firstname + "." + lastname) or (firstname + " " + lastname).
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>     (2) As mentioned
>     at https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/01/03/happy-new-year-looking-backlooking-ahead and
>     at https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/features/blog/2010/01/22/will-the-real-you-please-stand-up Linden
>     is investigating modifications to "names" in SL. However, it is
>     too early to comment on any details at this time. 
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>     (3) That said, the investigative work for (2) is being done with
>     the benefits of (1) held firmly in mind. (As with practically
>     anything in the biz, this statement is not a contract or guarantee.)
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>     Therefore, from Linden's perspective, we can live with the
>     proposed simplified requirements of a single string. If it becomes
>     necessary to revisit that in the future we'll raise it.
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