[ih] History of Naming on The Internet - is it still relevant?

[John Day]

Thanks everyone for your input. This really helps me understand the viewpoint.

John

> On Aug 14, 2025, at 17:59, touch--- via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> On Aug 14, 2025, at 2:49 PM, vinton cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 4:15 PM Karl Auerbach via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
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>>> Whew, you are opening up a Pandora's box.
>>> 
>>> I, personally, am not fond of the socket API.  But I'm lazy and don't
>>> want to re-invent a wheel that is almost round, or at least round-enough
>>> to be useful.
>>> 
>>> I do remember a presentation in which someone at a SIGCOMM gathering
>>> advocated certain network operations modeled more as virtual memory
>>> paging operations.  Sequence of results was not as important as knowing
>>> that a certain remote access to a block had been completed.  It was an
>>> intriguing idea and it was *neither* a socket-like form of access nor a
>>> file-like form of access.  My memory has a vague tingling that there was
>>> something like this in Multics.
>>> 
>> 
>> Dave Farber's distributed DCS system at UC Irvine effectively wrote into
>> the memory of the receiving computer.
> 
> Gary Delp implemented a variant called Memnet over token ring and Ron Minnich ported the idea to Sun computers over Ethernet called MEther; both treated the memory of a set of computers as a single address space and hid the rest over the network.
> 
> Both circa late 1980s.
> 
> Joe
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