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

[John Day]

Which is as it should be.  Farber got it right.

The only reason for naming ‘machines’ is for network management and even then it isn’t the machine but the process responsible for managing the machine.

Take care,
John

> On Aug 14, 2025, at 21:24, Dave Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> On 8/14/2025 2:49 PM, vinton cerf via Internet-history wrote:
>> Dave Farber's distributed DCS system at UC Irvine effectively wrote into
>> the memory of the receiving computer.
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> As I recall, naming in DCS was to processes, not machines. So processes could move around transparently to other processes.
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> d/
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