Logical routing specification in office information systems
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
The clearinghouse: a decentralized agent for locating named objects in a distributed environment
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Grapevine: an exercise in distributed computing
Communications of the ACM
The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms
The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms
A communication model for message management systems
A communication model for message management systems
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The logical routing of a message in a computer mail system involves the identification and location of the set of intended recipients for that message. This function is carried out by the naming and addressing mechanism of the mail system. An important property of that mechanism is that it should be able to identify and locate all the intended recipients of a message, so that, once submitted, a message will not become lost or stuck in the system. We first discuss message addressing schemes, which are a framework for dealing with the naming and addressing problem. Message addressing schemes can also serve as a basis for the analysis of some of the properties of logical message routing within a system. We examine the conditions necessary for a complete message addressing scheme, that is, one that guarantees to deliver all possible messages.