Hari Balakrishnan, Scott Shenker, Michael Walfish
2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03), Berkeley, CA, February 2003
Every distributed system that employs linking requires a Reference
Resolution Service (RRS) to convert link references to locations. We argue
that the Web's use of DNS for this function is a bad idea. This paper
discusses the nature, design, and use of a scalable and dynamic RRS. We
make two principal arguments about the nature of reference resolution:
first, that there should be a general-purpose application-independent
substrate for reference resolution, and second that the references
themselves should be unstructured and semantic-free.
We observe that distributed hash tables (DHTs) provide an elegant and
convenient platform for realizing these goals, and we present a
general-purpose DHT-based Semantic-Free Referencing (SFR) architecture.
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Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{balakrishnan2003semantic-free, author = "Hari Balakrishnan and Scott Shenker and Michael Walfish", title = "{Semantic-Free Referencing in Linked Distributed Systems}", booktitle = {2nd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS '03)}, year = {2003}, month = {February}, address = {Berkeley, CA} }