Federated Naming Service Programming Guide

Composing Names Relative to Organizations

The naming systems to be found under an organization are: user, host, service, fs, and site.

org/csl.parc/site/videoconference.northwing

names a conference room videoconference located in the north wing of the site associated with the organization csl.parc.

org/csl.parc/user/mjones

names a user mjones in the organization csl.parc.

org/csl.parc/host/inmail

names a machine inmail belonging to the organization csl.parc.

org/csl.parc/fs/pub/blue-and-whites/CSL92-124

names a file pub/blue-and-whites/CSL92-124 belonging to the organization csl.parc.

org/csl.parc/service/calendar

names the calendar service for the organization csl.parc. This service might manage the meeting schedules for the organization.