Historical contributions to the naming
problem
n One of the first attempts at a naming standard for
data communication was X.121, used in X.25.
n 32-bit Ethernet name allocation was another
important piece of standardisation.
n Network Service Access Point addresses in OSI
(NSAP addresses) made an important
contribution.
n ASN.1 definition of the Object Identifier Tree in
about 1986 was a seminal contribution.
n UUID naming mechanisms developed in the 1990s
introduced new concepts to naming.