Designing a global name service
PODC '86 Proceedings of the fifth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing
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Names are usually used to referring the objects. In the computer world, name services are fundamental services to all computer networks. Several name services have been developed to map physical resources to logical names. Most of current name services are hierarchical structure. Therefore, each name in a tree must be unique. In the real world, sometimes we want to share a name especially, in the organization with more than one office locations. This paper proposes a new naming system which supports the sharable name.