Structured Naming
Flat naming is hard to memorize by humans.
Structured names are composed of many parts, these are human-friendly.
Name Space Implementation
Requirements of a Name Space
Item | Global | Administrative | Managerial |
---|---|---|---|
Geographical scale of network | Worldwide | Organization | Department |
Total number of nodes | Few | Many | Vast numbers |
Responsiveness to lookups | Seconds | Miliseconds | Immediate |
Update propagation | Lazy | Immediate | Immediate |
Number of replicas | Many | None or few | None |
Is cliente-side caching applied? | Yes | Yes | Sometimes |
Iterative name resolution
Recursive name resolution
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