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Decentralized naming in distributed computer systems

Mann, 1987

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Mann T
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Designing a global character-string naming facility is an important and difficult problem in distributed systems. Providing global names--names that have the same meaning on any participating machine--is a vital step in welding a collection of individual computers into a …
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