Identification and Management of Distributed Data

Section I Naming and Addressing on the Internet

A number of standards, specifications, and techniques that have major significance in the field of data-centric networks are described throughout the book. What emerges is that, far from being diverse and uniquely different, there are some very significant similarities and relationships between these different specifications. These similarities are not coincidental but derive from a solid foundation of fundamental Internet standards that have proven to be very flexible in the way that they can be applied and adapted.

This section introduces the most fundamental of the Internet naming and addressing standards on which so many later specifications were able to build. The fundamental simplicity ...