RFC 273 (rfc273) - Page 1 of 3
More on standard host names
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Network Working Group Richard W. Watson
Request for Comments #273 SRI-ARC
NIC 7837 18 October 1971
Categories:
Related: 7625, 7626, 7661, 7688, 7650, 7646
Obsoletes: 7662
MORE ON STANDARD HOST NAMES
The Network Information Center is a logical place to handle this
problem of Standard Host Names and so the ball now rests here.
This is clearly a delicate subject with people having strong
feelings and attachments to names. No past proposal, including
RFC 247, NIC 7668, has yet achieved any acceptance. This
identification seems a natural thing and should be taken into
account in setting up a naming scheme. Therefore, the following
proposal is offered which I hope may be satisfactory to everyone.
Any naming scheme must:
(1) Recognize the expanding character of the Network, with
the potential eventually of several hundred sites.
(2) Recognize the need for abbreviations to simplify typing.
(3) Recognize the use of names on hardcopy and online
documentation
(4) Recognize people's strong identification with historical
names associated with their project.
To meet these needs, we propose adoption of a hybrid scheme
related to those in the other past proposals.
Each host will have a formal name of the form:
"-"
and an optional nickname of the form:
