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Fifth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications
p. 88
A Historic Name-Trail Service
Petros Maniatis, Stanford University
Mary Baker, Stanford University
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In this work we consider the mobility of personal on-line
identifiers. People change the identifiers through which
they are reachable on-line as they change jobs or residences
or Internet service providers. This kind of personal mobility
makes reaching people on-line error-prone. As people
move, they do not always know who or what has cached
their now obsolete identifiers so as to inform them of the
move. Use of these old identifiers can cause delivery failure
of important messages, or worse, may cause delivery of
messages to unintended recipients. For example, a sensitive
email message sent to my now obsolete work address
at a former place of employment may reach my unfriendly
former boss instead of me.
In this paper we describe HINTS, a historic name-trail
service. This service provides a persistent way to name
willing participants on-line using today’s transient on-line
identifiers. HINTS accomplishes this by connecting together
the names a person uses along with the times during
which those names were valid for that person. A correspondent
who wishes to reach a mobile person can use an
obsolete on-line name for that person, qualified with a time
at which the on-line name was successfully used; HINTS
resolves this historic name to a current valid on-line identifier
for the intended recipient, if that recipient has chosen
to leave a name trail in HINTS.
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Citation:
Petros Maniatis, Mary Baker,
"A Historic Name-Trail Service,"
wmcsa,
p. 88,
Fifth IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications,
2003
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