> So assuming that you all bought into my prior model of using the MMORPG
> as the event model, and XMPP as the Message Bus for said events, the next
> thought I had was regarding the events themselves.

> Each event needs to communicate at least two things, what happened, and
> what did it happen to.  What is also good to know is what did it for
> authorization
> purposes.  At some point the security model where not all session members
> have complete control over the shared resource needs to be addressed.

> I propose using the Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI) (if you don't
> already
> know, please look it up as I can't explain it in this brief email) as they
> way of
> describing what did it happen to.  I'm sure some bright spark can also use
> it
> to describe the "What Happened" too.

> In short XRI has thought about how to address objects, their properties, and
> even fragments of the properties as well as attributes of all of the above.
> They
> took from URL and URI, and IRI (internationalized) and extended it so it fit
> well within a Federated XML world and could be referenced through
> "synonyms".
> In other words, multiple identifiers can be used to identify the same
> object.

> It's the federation and the synonums part (where different authorities can
> control different parts of the identifier) that really made me take notice.

> The folks who worked on that spec really thought this thing through and
> seemed
> to know the subject matter of what would be needed well.

> Thanks for the chance to share my thoughts,
> -- Michael --