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                      3: \chapter {User Naming Architecture}
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                      5: \section {Overview}
                      6: 
                      7: The original work in INCA defined a naming architecture.
                      8: Some of this work has been overtaken by
                      9: standardisation activity, and other components are not relevant here.
                     10: A few pieces are retained, as they may be of general use.
                     11: The entire naming architecture is shown in Appendix~\ref{naming} on
                     12: page~\pageref{naming}.
                     13: 
                     14: \section {THORN}
                     15: \label{thorn:na}
                     16: The THORN\index{thorn} project is a significant ESPRIT project, which is implementing
                     17: Directory services\cite{thorn}.
                     18: THORN has defined a Naming Architecture, which includes a number of
                     19: non-standard, but useful attributes
                     20: \cite{thorn-na}.
                     21: This architecture has been adopted for use in QUIPU at UCL, and for this
                     22: reason, information in this architecture is  not duplicated here.
                     23: The latest version of the THORN Naming Architecture (also known as the RARE
                     24: Naming Architecture) in available 
                     25: via FTAM from UCL (the address is given in the {\bf Preface\/} of this Manual)
                     26: in the files
                     27: \file{thorn/thorn-na.txt},
                     28: \file{thorn/thorn-na.ps} or
                     29: \file{thorn/thorn-na.ms} depending whether you want a ``plain text'',
                     30: ``postscript'' or ``nroff -ms'' version.
                     31: Alternatively you could Mail \verb"quipu-support" asking for the 
                     32: relevant document (see Section~\ref{quipu:support}).
                     33: 
                     34: \section {Common Name Forms}
                     35: 
                     36: The use of ISO 3166 codes is abhorrent, as it makes the DUA perform
                     37: things which the DSA should do.
                     38: Therefore a more general country attribute is introduced 
                     39: (see Figure~\ref{country-na}).
                     40: The intention is to use this attribute to
                     41: permit users to search for countries based on familiar
                     42: strings.
                     43: 
                     44: QUIPU supports multiple inheritance,
                     45: so there is a need to define an QUIPU Object class, which will permit
                     46: all of the standard QUIPU attributes to be associated with all
                     47: objects in the QUIPU Directory, the definition can be found in
                     48: Figure~\ref{na-summary}, in Appendix~\ref{naming}.
                     49: 
                     50: \tagrind {country}{Country}{country-na}
                     51: 
                     52: \section {DSA Naming Architecture }
                     53: 
                     54: The following Naming Architecture components are needed in order to support
                     55: the QUIPU Mechanism for distributed operations.
                     56: These are defined here, as a convenient location.
                     57: Numbers are assigned elsewhere in this manual.
                     58: 
                     59: \tagrindfile {na}{Naming Architecture}{na}
                     60: 

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