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

Thanks for confirming that, Joshua!

The nature of the agent field is a small thing, but progress has been made.
:-)

Morgaine.

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On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Joshua Bell <josh@lindenlab.com> wrote:

> Speaking for Linden:
>
> (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).
>
> (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.
>
> (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.)
>
> 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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