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Transparency is very attractive in a distributed environment. However, supporting transparency in a large scale network composed of thousands of nodes raises new issues which must be addressed. In this paper, we present a solution to very large network name service, a key component of network transparency, and show how it is being integrated into Locus.
This research has been supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency, under contract DSS-MDA-903-82C-0189.
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Reiher, P.L., Popek, G.J. (1987). Locus Naming in a Large Scale Environment. In: Gerner, N., Spaniol, O. (eds) Kommunikation in Verteilten Systemen. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 130. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71655-3_15
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