Name Space
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However, the present syntax has been used to define a flat name
space, and hence would prohibit the same distributed name allocation
method used for host names ...
... network names. Although it would be possible to provide a flat space
or a name space in which, for example, the last label of a domain
name captured the old-style network name, any such approach would add
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... which will contain mappings from network names to various quantities,
but we also need a section of the name space, organized by network
and subnet ...
... network number slots already assigned and delegated
in the IN-ADDR.ARPA section of the name space. ...
... IN-ADDR.arpa for class B net 128.2, etc. Like the
first scheme, it uses in-place name space delegations to
distribute control.
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... Some new section of the name space. ...
... While this option provides the most opportunities, it creates
a need to delegate a whole new name space. Since the IP
address space is so closely related to the network number
space ...