The profile naming service
- 1 November 1988
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
- Vol. 6 (4) , 341-364
- https://doi.org/10.1145/48012.48013
Abstract
Profile is adescriptivenaming service used to identify users and organizations. This paper presents a structural overview of Profile's three major components: a confederation ofattribute-basedname servers, a name space abstraction that unifies the name servers, and a user interface that integrates the name space with existing naming systems. Each name server is an independent authority that allows clients to describe users and organizations with a multiplicity of attributes; the name space abstraction is a client program that implements a discipline for searching a sequence of name servers; and the interface provides a tool with which users build customized commands. Experience with an implementation in the DARPA/NSF Internet demonstrates that Profile is a feasible and effective mechanism for naming users and organizations in a large internet.Keywords
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