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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