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Historical contributions to the naming problem
nOne of the first attempts at a naming standard for data communication was X.121, used in X.25.
n32-bit Ethernet name allocation was another important piece of standardisation.
nNetwork Service Access Point addresses in OSI (NSAP addresses) made an important contribution.
nASN.1 definition of the Object Identifier Tree in about 1986 was a seminal contribution.
nUUID naming mechanisms developed in the 1990s introduced new concepts to naming.