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Scalable Human-Friendly Resource Names
September/October 2001 (vol. 5 no. 5)
pp. 20-27
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Gerco Ballintijn, Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, "Scalable Human-Friendly Resource Names," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 20-27, September/October, 2001.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/4236.957891,
author = {Gerco Ballintijn and Maarten van Steen and Andrew S. Tanenbaum},
title = {Scalable Human-Friendly Resource Names},
journal ={IEEE Internet Computing},
volume = {5},
number = {5},
issn = {1089-7801},
year = {2001},
pages = {20-27},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/4236.957891},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - IEEE Internet Computing
TI - Scalable Human-Friendly Resource Names
IS - 5
SN - 1089-7801
SP20
EP27
EPD - 20-27
A1 - Gerco Ballintijn,
A1 - Maarten van Steen,
A1 - Andrew S. Tanenbaum,
PY - 2001
KW - Keywords: naming
KW - resource location
KW - scalability
KW - wide-area systems
KW - DNS
VL - 5
JA - IEEE Internet Computing
ER -
 

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.

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Keywords: naming, resource location, scalability, wide-area systems, DNS
Citation:
Gerco Ballintijn, Maarten van Steen, Andrew S. Tanenbaum, "Scalable Human-Friendly Resource Names," IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 20-27, Sept.-Oct. 2001, doi:10.1109/4236.957891
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