Hari Balakrishnan, Karthik Lakshminarayanan, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, Michael Walfish
ACM SIGCOMM 2004, Portland, OR, September 2004
Currently the Internet has only one level of name resolution, DNS,
which converts user-level domain names into IP addresses. In this paper we
borrow liberally from the literature to argue that there should be three
levels of name resolution: from user-level descriptors to service
identifiers; from service identifiers to endpoint identifiers; and from
endpoint identifiers to IP addresses. These additional levels of naming and
resolution (1) allow services and data to be first class Internet objects
(in that they can be directly and persistently named), (2) seamlessly
accommodate mobility and multi-homing and (3) integrate middleboxes (such
as
NATs and firewalls) into the Internet architecture. We further argue that
flat names are a natural choice for the service and endpoint identifiers.
Hence, this architecture requires scalable resolution of flat names, a
capability that distributed hash tables (DHTs) can provide.
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Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{balakrishnan2004layered, author = "Hari Balakrishnan and Karthik Lakshminarayanan and Sylvia Ratnasamy and Scott Shenker and Ion Stoica and Michael Walfish", title = "{A Layered Naming Architecture for the Internet}", booktitle = {ACM SIGCOMM 2004}, year = {2004}, month = {September}, address = {Portland, OR} }