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@MISC{Ordille93descriptivename,
author = {Joann Janet Ordille},
title = {Descriptive Name Services For Large Internets},
year = {1993}
}
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Abstract
This thesis addresses the challenge of locating people, resources, and other objects in the global Internet. As the Internet grows beyond a million hosts in tens of thousands of organizations, it is increasingly difficult to locate any particular object. Hierarchical name services are frustrating, because users must guess the unique names for objects or navigate the name space to find information. Descriptive (i.e. relational) name services offer the promise of simple resource location through a non-procedural query language. Users locate resources by describing resource attributes. This thesis makes the promise of descriptive name services real by providing fast query processing in large internets. The key to speed in descriptive query processing is constraining the search space using two new techniques, called an active catalog and meta-data caching. The active catalog constrains the search space for a query by returning a list of data repositories where the answer to the query is li...
