Scalable Human-Friendly Resource Names

  • Authors:
  • Gerco Ballintijn;Maarten van Steen;Andrew S. Tanenbaum

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Currently, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are used to name and access Web-based resources. However, URLs pose a significant scalability problem because they cannot be used to refer to replicated Web pages. The authors propose a new URI scheme called Human-Friendly Names (HFNs) to solve this scalability problem. HFNs are high-level names that are easy-to-use by humans and name Web resources in a location-independent way. This article describes a scalable HFN-to-URL resolution mechanism that is based on URNs and makes use of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the Globe Location Service.