Naming Services
A naming service is a mechanism in which complex data objects (or references to these objects) can be associated with well-known names that follow standard naming conventions. These names can then be published, and clients can use these names to look up the data objects associated with them. Each naming service has its own naming conventions.
Names can be atomic (an indivisible component of a name) or compound (a sequence of zero or more atomic names, such as /usr/bin in a file namespace). Names can also be composite; enterprises use composite namespaces a lot. For example, a name such as http://www.getgamma.com/newsletter/archives/index.html typically accesses a DNS (Internet naming) facility to first resolve the www.getgamma.com ...
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