RFC237 - NIC view of standard host names

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Network Working Group Richard W. Watson

Request for Comments: 237 October 5, 1971

NIC: 7662

The Nic's View of Standard Host Names

The NIC strongly favors standardization of host names. People will

get used to the names appearing on documents coming from or through

the NIC and so we would like the ones used by NIC and the ones used

in Telnets to agree. In the absence of agreed standard names, we

have chosen some. We are not particularly partial to the ones we are

using, but do feel any standard naming scheme take into account most

of the following considerations.

(1) Names consist of two parts, SITE and HOST, preferably

separated by a delimiter sUCh as a dash.

(2) Site and Host names have some mnemonic value, if possible not

involving the name of the computer as computers will change, but

the organization running it will remain.

(3) We strongly recommend at least 8 characters be allowed,

including one delimiter. The NIC now uses 12 characters maximum.

(4) Assuming 8 character names, we recommend that the site name

be a maximum of 6 characters and that Host names at a given site

be unique in the first six characters. Thus, with the delimiter,

sites desiring to only have 4 characters in their tables can

accept all characters typed by the user and truncate to 6

characters and still achieve uniqueness.

(5) Once the NWG has set a standard syntax and names for present

Hosts, the NIC should be responsible for maintaining the standard

and assigning names to new hosts and other groups involved in

Network dialogue. Besides hosts there are NIC stations and

individuals in organizations not on the Net involved in the

Network dialogue. The NIC needs to assign names to these Network

affiliations and will use the rules set by the NWG.

[This RFCwas put into machine readable form for entry]

[into the online RFCarchives by He Morin, Viagie 10/99]

 
 
 
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