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