INCITS/ISO/IEC 14771 : 1999

1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Definitions
4 Abbreviations
5 Overview of ODP naming
6 Basic Naming Concepts
7 Name resolution model
8 Name communication
9 Name comparison
10 Federation
11 Compliance
Annex A - Relationship with Related Naming Services and
          Framework
Annex B - Configuring name services
Annex C - Application of Naming
Annex D - Bibliography
Index

Delineates a general framework for context-relative naming, refining and elaborating on the naming concepts defined in Part 2 of the ODP-RM; Identifies and characterizes functions necessary to handle names in the context of a federation of different naming systems; and clarifies the relationship between the concepts of name management (i.e. federation and naming) in distributed computing systems. It provides a general framework for the naming of entities of interest in ODP systems, which includes naming in the infrastructure of an ODP system, naming in the applications built on the infrastructure, and naming in the enterprise the system serves.