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+Network Working Group                                  Richard W. Watson
+Request for Comments: 237                                 October 5, 1971
+NIC: 7662
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+                 The Nic's View of Standard Host Names
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+   The NIC strongly favors standardization of host names. People will
+   get used to the names appearing on documents coming from or through
+   the NIC and so we would like the ones used by NIC and the ones used
+   in Telnets to agree.  In the absence of agreed standard names, we
+   have chosen some.  We are not particularly partial to the ones we are
+   using, but do feel any standard naming scheme take into account most
+   of the following considerations.
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+      (1)  Names consist of two parts, SITE and HOST, preferably
+      separated by a delimiter such as a dash.
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+      (2)  Site and Host names have some mnemonic value, if possible not
+      involving the name of the computer as computers will change, but
+      the organization running it will remain.
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+      (3)  We strongly recommend at least 8 characters be allowed,
+      including one delimiter.  The NIC now uses 12 characters maximum.
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+      (4)  Assuming 8 character names, we recommend that the site name
+      be a maximum of 6 characters and that Host names at a given site
+      be unique in the first six characters.  Thus, with the delimiter,
+      sites desiring to only have 4 characters in their tables can
+      accept all characters typed by the user and truncate to 6
+      characters and still achieve uniqueness.
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+      (5)  Once the NWG has set a standard syntax and names for present
+      Hosts, the NIC should be responsible for maintaining the standard
+      and assigning names to new hosts and other groups involved in
+      Network dialogue. Besides hosts there are NIC stations and
+      individuals in organizations not on the Net involved in the
+      Network dialogue.  The NIC needs to assign names to these Network
+      affiliations and will use the rules set by the NWG.
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+        [This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry]
+     [into the online RFC archives by Hélène Morin, Viagénie 10/99]
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+Watson                                                          [Page 1]
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