notes-computer-naming

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooko%27s_triangle
  • https://zooko.com/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:d23ekhh2b4xashf53ycrfoynkq:y4vpazbrt2beddyhgwcch4sduhnmmefdotlyelojxg4tyzllhb4a/distnames.html
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-certifying_File_System
  • "Then in January of 2011 he published an idea called “Squaring The Triangle” which used ideas from Bitcoin to design a solution to The Naming Problem. (Those ideas, or similar ones, had been independently invented slightly earlier by Matthew "appamatto" Willis, which gave rise to Namecoin.) If that idea works out, it will be a fundamental concept in networking technology which will probably outlive us all." http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/squarezooko
• http://www.communitywiki.org/LocalNames
• namecoin: http://dot-bit.org/Main_Page
• http://dot-bit.org/Personal_Namespace
• relative (local, non-global) naming can be transitive, e.g. 'go to Foo and ask him how to resolve the name Bar; then go there (to Foo.Bar) and ask him how to resolve Baz'.
  • so mathematical category theory applies
• an ordered set of name servers (ordered for priority of name resolution) is an important concept that needs a name.
• two locations accessible to each other in a space with relative directions (like relative naming) are always connected by the composition law of relativity (my term), that is, if you go 'north' to get to place C from place B, and if you go 'east' to get to place B from place A, then, starting from place A, one direction list to get to place C must be 'east', 'north'. E.g. this tells you that if you know how to name place C relative to another place that you know how to name relative to a starting point, you can construct a direct name for place C from that starting point.
• north south east way are relative directions (geometry)
• universal algebra/category theory also talks about when you have different perspectives that talk about the same objects (or homomorphisms of), with the preservation of relations and functions being key

See also [Self-ideas-computer-multiverse].