Abstract
Profile is a descriptive naming service used to identify users and organizations. This paper presents a structural overview of Profile's three major components: a confederation of attribute-based name servers, a name space abstraction that unifies the name servers, and a user interface that integrates the name space with existing naming systems. Each name server is an independent authority that allows clients to describe users and organizations with a multiplicity of attributes; the name space abstraction is a client program that implements a discipline for searching a sequence of name servers; and the interface provides a tool with which users build customized commands. Experience with an implementation in the DARPA/NSF Internet demonstrates that Profile is a feasible and effective mechanism for naming users and organizations in a large internet.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 341-364 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Journal | ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 1 1988 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Attribute-based naming
- white-pages service
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Computer Science