Very clear. I totally agree to this. Whether a name be numeric, non-numeric, alpha-numeric is not an issue; I used to teach my student this way, too. In fact, string name and a numeric id is the same thing.
OK, people are now wiser, so I'd also conform to this generic use of the term 'name'. On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Noel Chiappa <[email protected]>wrote: > > From: Christopher Morrow <[email protected]> > > > noel can explain a bunch more of this, but.. I think 'name' in his > > context isnt 'mail.lcs.mit.edu' but rather: "192.168.2.2" in > today'sn > > parlance > > Yes, I was using 'name' in the very generic sense of 'an identifying label > for an object, of no particular syntax or semantics'. As I wrote in > http://www.chiappa.net/~jnc/tech/endpoints.txt<http://www.chiappa.net/%7Ejnc/tech/endpoints.txt>(Section > 2 'Terminology of > Naming and Binding'): > > The terms "object" and "name" are hopefully self-explanatory: it is > crucial > to differentiate between the thing itself, and any identifier (in the > generic sense) by which we refer to it. In this paper, whenever the term > "name" is used, unless otherwise explicitly indicated, the meaning given > to > it is the generic one of "an identifier (of no specific syntax or > properties) for an object". > > Thus, the phrase "name of a host" does *not* refer to an existing system > of > printable strings (e.g "lcs.mit.edu"), or somesuch; it refers, instead, > to > the abstract concept of an identifier for a host. (The term "host-name" is > used to refer to such printable strings, at the possible risk of some > confusion, because it is of long-standing use in the networking > community.) > > This may seem confusing (and some might suggest use of a different term > for > "name"), but the use of the term "name" in this manner is established in > the literature (along with subsidiary terminology such as "namespace"), > and > while use of the term "name" has perhaps been confused in the networking > community, it seems a major distraction to try and tackle that issue now. > > Noel > -- Regards, DY http://cnu.kr/~dykim
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