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.